From: David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 23.0 is much slower starting than Emacs 22.3
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:46:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48FF58FB.6000302@harpegolden.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081022151444.GE924@muc.de>
Alan Mackenzie 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.
>
> 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
>
FWIW, I'd find your emacs22 time pretty unacceptable, never mind the
emacs23 one, even on a 1.2GHz-class machine. Are a lot of people
putting up with that sort of start time? Ouch.
Of course it could be an emacs bug triggered on your system and not
mine, but I kinda wonder: is it only emacs or is everything slow? Is it
only slow to start or slow to update the display and whatnot? Makes me
think you might have a local system issue causing an I/O bottleneck, is
all, maybe no DMA on your HDD, or your system's low on RAM and is
already swapping or something.
On my admittedly higher-end newish multicore (but each core is only ~
2GHz and emacs isn't parallelized...) gnu+linux system, emacs23 takes 1
to 2 seconds to start, including the ridiculous happy-dance across the
screen the initial X11 frame does (known-bug afaik), and I thought it
was getting a bit sluggish (whenever an app start time is > 1 sec I
start to notice and get irritated), but I put it down to the
happy-dancing. With a .emacs.desktop of 100 random .el files from the
emacs source tree, start time was 2 to 3 seconds.
Iceweasel takes 2 to 3 secs and oowriter (probably the bloatiest thing I
have installed) 11 secs ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-22 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-22 9:11 Emacs 23.0 is much slower starting than Emacs 22.3 Alan Mackenzie
2008-10-22 13:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-22 13:55 ` John covici
2008-10-22 15:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-10-22 16:46 ` David De La Harpe Golden [this message]
2008-10-22 21:12 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-10-22 21:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-23 9:21 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-10-23 21:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-23 6:53 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-10-23 9:09 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-10-23 16:57 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-10-23 21:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-23 22:33 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-24 9:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-23 22:47 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-10-23 23:12 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-23 23:54 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-24 9:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-24 13:58 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-10-24 15:44 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-24 16:24 ` Chong Yidong
2008-10-24 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-24 16:45 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-10-24 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-25 2:01 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-10-25 3:38 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-10-24 0:13 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-10-24 0:59 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-24 1:58 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-10-24 1:44 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-10-24 9:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-24 15:00 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-10-24 11:21 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-10-24 14:32 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-10-24 19:28 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-10-24 19:35 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-10-24 4:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-24 15:19 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-10-24 18:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-24 19:36 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-10-24 23:44 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-10-25 15:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-25 17:02 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-10-24 9:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-24 9:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-24 9:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-23 1:29 ` Miles Bader
2008-10-23 9:06 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-10-22 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-22 21:40 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-10-22 22:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-22 21:02 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-10-24 11:59 ` Emacs 23.0 is much slower than Emacs 22.3. Maybe it's the garbage collector Alan Mackenzie
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