redisplay issues

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Julian Bradfield writes:

 > In particularly, redisplay seems very flickery. Frames with multiple
 > windows flicker every time certain changes are made to the buffers

Xft builds are known to have very slow redisplay (even on the local
display).  I don't really know why; the documentation is pretty bad (I
guess they expect you to be using Pango or even gecko to manage text
display).

 > (I can't be precise yet about what causes obvious flickers),

--with-widgets=no probably will help.