Evolution 2.22 slowness and other oddities.

[Frank Mayhar]

On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 17:27 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 13:55 -0700, Frank Mayhar wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 00:48 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 19:29 -0700, Frank Mayhar wrote:
> > > > I recently upgraded to gnome 2.22 from 2.20.  I use evolution heavily
> > > > and despite the talk of speed improvements in 2.22, on the contrary I
> > > > see it being _much_ slower, on the order of half as fast.  This is
> > > > running on FreeBSD 6.2-stable (circa Jan 1 2008) on amd64.  Nothing else
> > > > seems particularly slower, just evolution.  In particular I see redraws
> > > > go very slowly, redrawing part, pausing, redrawing more, pausing, etc.
> > > 
> > > Something else you might want to try is downgrading cairo to 1.4.14.
> > 
> > This did the trick.  It's back at the former speed (not blindingly fast
> > but not painfully slow, either).
> 
> If you upgrade back to 1.5.14, but remove
> patch-src_cairo-xlib-display.c, does that also work?

Indeed it does, thanks.  To be crystal clear, I'm now running with cairo
1.5.14 but without the above patch, and performance might even be a
little bit better than with cairo 1.4.14.  Certainly it's no worse.
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