Re: Release update

[Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>]

> > Do you still experience the slowness with the one from:
> > http://code.google.com/p/emacs-for-windows/?
>
> Yes, unfortunately. 18 sec for emacs -Q.
>
> But, as I said, the time is variable. Testing only emacs -Q:
> First time: 18 sec.
> Second time, < 1 sec.
> Third time, 16 sec.
> Fourth time, < 1 sec.
> Fifth time, < 1 sec.
> Sixth time, 15 sec.
> Seventh time, 15 sec.
> Eighth time, 1 sec.
> Ninth time, 16 sec.
> Tenth time, 1 sec
>
> That's exactly the behavior I see in Lennart's vanilla builds. It
> either takes quite a long time or it comes up immediately. I was
> thinking that it usually takes a long time, but trying now several
> times in a row, it looks like it's about 50-50. Same thing for
> Lennart's build.

A wild guess: We have experienced a similar slowness at startup for
lilypond, caused by fontconfig which rebuilt the cache files each
time.  The solution was to untick `Automatically adjust clock for
daylight saving changes'.  More can be found in this thread:

  http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg42261.html


      Werner