From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs trying to load too many files at startup Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:12:14 -0500 Message-ID: <87ek5b6yad.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: <200511191831.jAJIVJTp026147@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132507361 16699 80.91.229.2 (20 Nov 2005 17:22:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 17:22:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 20 18:22:34 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EdssV-000132-Ng for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 18:21:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EdssV-0007a8-3x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:21:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Edsjh-0003Ld-R9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:12:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Edsjg-0003Ku-1a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:12:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Edsjf-0003Ko-SZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:12:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.93] (helo=tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Edsjf-0005uy-Nu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:12:15 -0500 Original-Received: from alfajor ([67.71.33.38]) by tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20051120171215.SSAZ16985.tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:12:15 -0500 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C093DD72BA; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:12:14 -0500 (EST) Original-To: Dan Nicolaescu In-Reply-To: <200511191831.jAJIVJTp026147@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Sat, 19 Nov 2005 10:31:16 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Originating-IP: [0] 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:46345 Archived-At: > There are about 2400 stat syscalls during the startup. > emacs-21.4 does about 230 stat64 syscalls... We should be able to bring those way down: 1 - just before dumping, turn things like "lisp-mode.elc" into "emacs-lisp/lisp-mode.elc". This requires many stat calls but who cares. 2 - at startup blindly prepend /foo/bar/22.0.50/lisp/ to each and every non-absolute item in load-history. No stat calls here. Stefan