From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gnu Emacs way slower than XEmacs Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:17:02 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84he8qliqp.fsf@boost-consulting.com> References: <84r87ulpts.fsf@boost-consulting.com> <87u1cqy8jc.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051021656 32742 80.91.224.249 (22 Apr 2003 14:27:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 14:27:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 22 16:27:33 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 197yk9-0008Vo-00 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 16:27:33 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 197ypR-0002th-00 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 16:33:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 197yiQ-000496-07 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:25:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 197yhm-00046j-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:25:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 197yhk-00045z-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:25:05 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 197yfr-0003FT-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:23:07 -0400 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 197yd5-0007rt-00 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 16:20:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 197yZK-0007Wc-00 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 16:16:22 +0200 Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) XEmacs/21.4 (Native Windows TTY Support (Windows), cygwin32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rMEDzycYgpU6W5n3bWbqi7/1Le4= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13355 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13355 "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: >>>>>> "David" == David Abrahams writes: > > David> Now that I've got your attention, I should qualify that. > David> On Windows XP using GNUs and talking to an IMAP server, > David> it's way faster to use XEmacs than to use Gnu Emacs. > > Which version of XEmacs? The very latest I could download a few days ago. > Up until very recently, things could be very slow because of a bug > in our process code which caused a hang on large network operations. It didn't *look* like a hang from this end, but if the hang was short enough it might've been one. > If that sounds like a possibility, I'll find the patch. (I think it > was by Daiki Ueno, it simply set the pipe to non-blocking.) I don't > think this code was ever part of GNU Emacs, but there's some > possibility of independent invention. ;-) Oh, that sounds like it might be a possibility. Worth looking at, for sure. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com