libx11 is missconfigured and slow window creation time

Bug #681939 reported by Cedric BAIL
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libx11 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Somehow compose cache is disable in libx11. This trigger a slow path in libx11 _XimParseStringFile function.

It could be easily detected by valgrind tool callgrind running on any X application with more than 500 000 calls to getc comming from _XimParseStringFile.

See that mail thread for a full explanation of that issue and how to fix it:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2009-April/000643.html

It impact all Ubuntu version I know since 2009.

Revision history for this message
Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :
Changed in libx11 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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