x performance problem in webkitgtk

Jerry Vonau jvonau at shaw.ca
Sun Jul 7 15:14:44 EDT 2013


Think you ran into the same root cause as
https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/12718 might be fixed in 13.2.0-12

Jerry

On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 19:42 +0200, NoiseEHC wrote:
> Just tested with WikipediaEN that it does not happen on 21021 (12.1.0) 
> so it is a regression.
> 
> On 07/07/2013 18:53, NoiseEHC wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Now that I am developing a HTML editor application, noticed a 
> > performance problem on xo1.75 latest (32011).
> >
> > The symptom is that text selection is very-very slow in the editor. 
> > You can test it by opening a long page from wikipedia in epiphany, 
> > selecting some text with the mouse then pressing shift+up or 
> > shift+down. Looking at 'top -d 0.3 -p <pid of x>' shows that while the 
> > browser is thinking about the selection, the X process consumes all 
> > CPU, then the webview is updated. The same does not happen if you just 
> > scroll the webview. I have installed firefox and it does not have the 
> > same problem either.
> >
> > Could you test it on XO-1 and XO-1.5, please?
> >
> > I think fixing this problem is quite important as it practically makes 
> > all text editing web applications unfeasible on the XO...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Andrew
> 
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