From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 23.0.60: slower in starting up? Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:51:27 -0400 Message-ID: <87zlrulao0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <18436.43956.847938.791489@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <18437.23883.262612.339482@gargle.gargle.HOWL> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208320464 21662 80.91.229.12 (16 Apr 2008 04:34:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:34:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: claus.klingberg@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: raman@users.sourceforge.net Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 16 06:34:45 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jlygv-0004ck-95 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:52:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JlygG-0004c4-UR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:51:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JlygC-0004bl-T6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:51:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JlygB-0004bQ-7V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:51:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JlygB-0004bN-2b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:51:27 -0400 Original-Received: from c-98-216-111-182.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([98.216.111.182] helo=furry) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JlygA-0003yj-PI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:51:26 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4E43AC04A; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:51:27 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <18437.23883.262612.339482@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (T. V. Raman's message of "Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:58:35 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:95323 Archived-At: "T. V. Raman" writes: > I'm running on alinux console with the monitor turned off, so I > couldn't care less about the fonts in use;-) The starting time for emacs -nw is close to instantaneous---less than 1 second before Emacs is ready for input---with no discernible performance regression compared to Emacs 22. With the font backend turned on, the startup time is much slower, but clearly this isn't what you're talking about. Maybe some of the packages you're loading take much longer to load in Emacs 23, for some reason?