From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 23.0 is much slower starting than Emacs 22.3 Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:14:44 +0000 Message-ID: <20081022151444.GE924@muc.de> References: <20081022091136.GB924@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224687981 32672 80.91.229.12 (22 Oct 2008 15:06:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:06:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 22 17:07:18 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 1KsfI8-0005tJ-JZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:06:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46021 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KsfH2-0007X1-G1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:05:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KsfGx-0007W6-Hr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:05:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KsfGu-0007UZ-Vb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:05:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56572 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KsfGu-0007UU-Nd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:05:16 -0400 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:3520 helo=mail.muc.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KsfGt-00066p-MS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:05:16 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 32055 invoked by uid 3782); 22 Oct 2008 15:05:10 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9E5206A.dip.t-dialin.net [217.229.32.106]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:05:08 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 8172 invoked by uid 1000); 22 Oct 2008 15:14:44 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 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:104847 Archived-At: Hi, Stefan! On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 09:23:34AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I have an extremely medium speed processor (Athlon 1.2 GHz) and, at > > the moment, a well-padded .emacs.desktop. > > Starting Emacs 22.3 takes 23 seconds. > > Starting Emacs 23.0 takes 38 seconds. > > Emacs 23 thus starts up at about three fifths the speed of 22. This > > is very noticeable, and not a good thing. > > I haven't tried to tie down why this is. > Could it be due to the extra font-selection efforts? > You could compare the GUI vs text modes, to get a first > impression of where the time difference goes. The above times were on tty's. Trying it on X-Windows, there was no difference (or, at most, 1 or 2 seconds longer). > Stefan -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).