On 12/10/2012 12:57 PM, Dani Moncayo wrote: > And for the record, from a MSYS bash: > > $ time /c/emacs/trunk/bin/emacs --batch --eval '(message "Hello")' > Hello > > real 0m1.189s Can you try cp /c/emacs/trunk/bin/emacs.exe /c/emacs/trunk/bin/emacs2.exe && time /c/emacs/trunk/bin/emacs2.exe? Can you try running the time command a few times?