Re: Emacs 23, sluggish performance

[Eric Lilja <mindcooler@gmail.com>]

Eric Lilja wrote:
> Hello, I'm using a checkout from the trunk built yesterday on my WinXP 
> with the new font backend enabled. Emacs feels very sluggish even with 
> just my .emacs settings file opened which is not a big file. Scrolling 
> in the file is slow, selecting is slow. Maybe not the same response I'm 
> used to when typing either. I normally select and scroll with the mouse, 
> which I know is probably under-using emacs but it wasn't slow before. 
> When I look at the task manager I see emacs is consuming practically no 
> cpu time and memory usage is modest (around 25 MB). Also, the binaries 
> are built with debugging information.
> I'm wondering what I can do to speed things up, maybe rebuild without 
> debugging information and not enabling the new font backend but it 
> shouldn't be necessary I feel.
> 
> Comments and suggestions welcome.
> 
> - Eric
> 

Hmm, I performed a fresh checkout and started to rebuild without 
debugging information and not with the new font backend enabled but the 
bootstrap gets stuck compiling /net/net-utils.el (consuming 100 % cpu 
time on one core, but never getting past it). This is the same problem I 
reported on the 22-branch some time ago but I never got any response to 
that.

- Eric