From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Lilja Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 23, sluggish performance Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:02:29 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203865377 10855 80.91.229.12 (24 Feb 2008 15:02:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:02:57 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 24 16:03:22 2008 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 1JTINt-0000XH-3u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:03:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JTINN-0006b2-RL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:02:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JTINJ-0006al-Vr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:02:46 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JTINI-0006aT-MS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:02:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JTINI-0006aQ-GH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:02:44 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JTINH-0001aj-Gn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:02:43 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JTINB-00046g-IF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:02:37 +0000 Original-Received: from cust.fiber-lan.vnet.lk.85.194.49.108.stunet.se ([85.194.49.108]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:02:37 +0000 Original-Received: from mindcooler by cust.fiber-lan.vnet.lk.85.194.49.108.stunet.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:02:37 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cust.fiber-lan.vnet.lk.85.194.49.108.stunet.se User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:90226 Archived-At: 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