In a related discussion, it's interesting to read this overview of work required to get Emacs to support double-buffering on X11. Interestingly, it's by the sam

In a related discussion, it's interesting to read this overview of work required to get Emacs to support double-buffering on X11. Interestingly, it's by the same guy who proposed the new dumper patch, Daniel Colascione (who lurks around here) https://www.facebook.com/notes/daniel-colascione/buttery-smooth-emacs/10155313440066102 https://www.facebook.com/notes/daniel-colascione/buttery-smo... (Notes are Facebook's newish blog format) HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12830206 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12830206