From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 23.0 is much slower starting than Emacs 22.3 Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:29:45 +0900 Message-ID: <87tzb43xpy.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <20081022091136.GB924@muc.de> <20081022151444.GE924@muc.de> <48FF58FB.6000302@harpegolden.net> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224725417 32535 80.91.229.12 (23 Oct 2008 01:30:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:30:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alan Mackenzie , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David De La Harpe Golden Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 23 03:31:18 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 1Ksp2e-0004cp-6X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:31:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37635 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ksp1Y-00069D-EL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:30:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ksp1T-000695-JY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:29:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ksp1R-00068t-7v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:29:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60804 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ksp1R-00068q-2t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:29:57 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp12.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.74]:51755) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ksp1O-0005N7-8n; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:29:55 -0400 Original-Received: from 218.231.212.150.eo.eaccess.ne.jp ([218.231.212.150] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp12.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1Ksp1I-00007R-FP; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:29:48 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A21A9E00B; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:29:45 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <48FF58FB.6000302@harpegolden.net> (David De La Harpe Golden's message of "Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:46:51 +0100") Original-Lines: 19 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV GOL (outbound) X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:104883 Archived-At: David De La Harpe Golden writes: > 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 ... > 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 Note that he was including the time to load his "well-padded desktop", and in my experience this greatly increases startup time. Obviously it would be nice to see a more precise definition of what exactly is being measured... -Miles -- `Suppose Korea goes to the World Cup final against Japan and wins,' Moon said. `All the past could be forgiven.' [NYT]