Re: occasional pause (or stutter) on win32 emacs 23.0.95

[Matthew L Daniel <mdaniel@gmail.com>]

On 12/10/2009 6:59 AM, Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 17:13, Matthew L Daniel<mdaniel@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> On the one hand, I'm sorry that blamed Emacs, but on the other hand since
>> the Windows version of Emacs uses MSYS, this is relevant.
>
> For the record, you don't need MSYS to build or run a MinGW build of Emacs.
>
>      Juanma

Yes, I was researching yesterday and it turns out I was wrong. The 
content of http://mingw.org/wiki/MSYS states that MSYS is _not_ the 
subsystem, as I erroneously assumed it was. I thought MinGW
was a collection of compilers which targeted the MSYS runtime. The
content of http://mingw.org/wiki/MinGW claims that its compilers
target the Microsoft runtimes.

Having said that, learning this just makes me _more_ confused. Now I 
wonder if perhaps the mingw-gcc outputs are somehow not using the 
Microsoft runtimes "correctly", leading to some kind of initialization 
delay. [yes, I know this has really digressed into a MinGW discussion, 
and for that I am sorry]

I want very much to use Microsoft's compilers to build Emacs, in order
to find out what's wrong. However, for right now I don't have the
intellectual bandwidth to chase that.

   Sorry for the confusion,
   -- /v\atthew