From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Randy Yates Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: emacs takes exhorbitantly long to read long, one-line files. Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 23:52:28 -0400 Organization: Digital Signal Labs Message-ID: <87ppwn62yr.fsf@digitalsignallabs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368935568 4541 80.91.229.3 (19 May 2013 03:52:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 03:52:48 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 19 05:52:47 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Udufu-000531-Tx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 May 2013 05:52:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57270 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Udufu-0004HN-Je for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 May 2013 23:52:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:40422) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Udufl-0004HF-P8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 May 2013 23:52:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uduff-0005wo-Kd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 May 2013 23:52:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailrelay.embarq.synacor.com ([208.47.184.3]:35184) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uduff-0005wk-Gb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 May 2013 23:52:31 -0400 X_CMAE_Category: 0,0 Undefined,Undefined X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=QaZf4Krv c=1 sm=0 tr=0 a=JO1zTxoNnPLDpb8eQHNrCw==:117 a=JO1zTxoNnPLDpb8eQHNrCw==:17 a=OVjENCxEW14A:10 a=9n2LythGIhMA:10 a=x1JHTF3VILYA:10 a=yrnTiy7_AAAA:8 a=VYsShAg9AAAA:8 a=mDV3o1hIAAAA:8 a=aBW8aIZEmxoA:10 a=RnzqK07lp9wAmYDIQhoA:9 X-CM-Score: 0 X-Scanned-by: Cloudmark Authority Engine Authentication-Results: smtp04.embarq.synacor.com smtp.user=yatesfreedarandy@centurylink.net; auth=pass (LOGIN) Original-Received: from [71.54.137.147] ([71.54.137.147:57865] helo=galois.digitalsignallabs.com) by smtp.centurylink.net (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.3.49 r(42060/42061)) with ESMTPA id CF/A3-01256-D7C48915; Sat, 18 May 2013 23:52:30 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (nc-71-54-137-147.dhcp.embarqhsd.net [71.54.137.147]) by galois.digitalsignallabs.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id C6185E186E for ; Sat, 18 May 2013 23:52:28 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x X-Received-From: 208.47.184.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:159671 Archived-At: I have a file (a matlab .m file of a vector of data) that is all on one line and about 2 MB: http://www.digitalsignallabs.com/dspin.m emacs takes a very long time (6 minutes?) to read this in, and practically becomes unusable in the mean time. I'm thinking of looking into the code to get an idea of why this happens and of course look for a fix. If anyone has any pointers or other info on the problem, please inform me. -- Randy Yates Digital Signal Labs http://www.digitalsignallabs.com