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Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 15:10:18 -0400
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Subject: Re: Performance problems with emacs-X11 in current cygwin (attn: glib and gvim maintainer)
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This morning, I reverted GLib2.0 to a previous version and it did not
solve the issue.

Steps used in testing:
Extracted "libglib2.0_0-2.30.2-1.tar.bz2" and ran /etc/postinstall/glib2.0.sh
Started XWin and attempted to edit a file via gvim (performance issue
still remain)

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Ken Brown <kbrown AT cornell DOT edu> wrote:
> On 6/1/2012 7:00 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
>>
>> I found an XP system that hadn't been upgraded in a few weeks, and I
>> upgraded libglib2.0_0 but nothing else. This was enough to trigger the
>> problem.
>
>
> I've checked the git repository for glib at
>
>  http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/log/?h=glib-2-32
>
> and there were very few changes between 2.32.2 and 2.32.3.  The only one
> that looks to me like it could have anything to do with our problem is the
> 2012-05-14 change to GConverterInputStream.  The change appears to be a
> pretty obvious bug fix, but I can imagine a scenario in which fixing the bug
> would result in the symptoms we're seeing.
>
> I'm not going to speculate further until I can get access to an XP system to
> do some testing.  Or maybe someone who uses XP regularly will beat me to it.
>
>
> Ken
>
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