From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: PK Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#19716: Excessive Windows registry accesses Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 19:32:49 +0100 Message-ID: <54C92B51.3090704@resiak.org> Reply-To: djc@resiak.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422470893 27523 80.91.229.3 (28 Jan 2015 18:48:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:48:13 +0000 (UTC) To: 19716@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 28 19:48:11 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YGXes-0007ow-Lv for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 19:48:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55438 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YGXes-00021Z-1J for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:48:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39512) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YGXeo-0001zz-0S for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:48:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YGXek-0004Xk-R9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:48:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:40532) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YGXek-0004Xe-O8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:48:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YGXek-0003T3-Ds for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:48:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: PK Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:48:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: report 19716 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: X-Debbugs-Original-To: "bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org >> Emacs bugs" Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.142247084213276 (code B ref -1); Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:48:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 28 Jan 2015 18:47:22 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59224 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YGXe6-0003S1-2s for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:47:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33175) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YGXQF-00036w-Am for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:33:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YGXQ9-0006ls-8o for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:32:57 -0500 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::11]:40376) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YGXQ9-0006ln-6L for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:32:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34875) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YGXQ8-00050b-6C for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:32:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YGXQ5-0006j4-2j for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:32:56 -0500 Original-Received: from p3plsmtpa07-02.prod.phx3.secureserver.net ([173.201.192.231]:55807) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YGXQ4-0006iK-UD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:32:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.32] ([81.221.45.135]) by p3plsmtpa07-02.prod.phx3.secureserver.net with id lWYp1p00E2uzgYH01WYqa4; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 11:32:51 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:47:21 -0500 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:98838 Archived-At: When I invoke GNU Emacs (24.4.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2014-10-21 on KAEL) on Windows 7, it makes an enormous number of what seem (to me) unnecessary identical registry accesses. 20 times each: QueryValue: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage\28605 (success) QueryValue: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage\28604 (name not found) 1849 times each in quick succession (!): OpenKey: HKCU\SOFTWARE\GNU\Emacs (name not found) OpenKey: HKLM\SOFTWARE\GNU\Emacs (name not found) 1850 times likewise (also !): QueryKey: HKCU (success -- unsurprisingly) and likewise finally, 1884 times: QueryKey: HKLM (more unsurprising success) Why? PK