[Uim] [Docs] UIM-XIM slowness

Martin Swift martin at swift.is
Mon Feb 5 15:12:15 EET 2007


On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 04:07:14PM +0900, Etsushi Kato wrote:
> On 12/29/06, Martin Swift <martin at swift.is> wrote:
> >Is the XIM slowness an inherent problem with the bridge?
> 
> XIM is a legacy protocol and actually slow in the performance.  But
> taking a few seconds seems storange.  I often uses uim-xim on mlterm
> and it starts immediately after the command.  I think XIM code in
> rxvt-unicode has some perfomance loss.

As it turns out, mlterm loads without any seeming time lag. Looks like
this is a problem specific to xterm and urxvt (and probably rxvt as
well). I'll keep in mind to add something on this in the docs.

Does anyone else have any suggestions for good terminals?

Cheers,
Martin

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