>
>
> Yes, I was researching yesterday and it turns out I was wrong. The content
> of http://mingw.org/wiki/MSYS states that MSYS is _not_ the subsystem, as
> I erroneously assumed it was. I thought MinGW
> was a collection of compilers which targeted the MSYS runtime. The
> content of http://mingw.org/wiki/MinGW claims that its compilers
> target the Microsoft runtimes.
>
> Having said that, learning this just makes me _more_ confused. Now I wonder
> if perhaps the mingw-gcc outputs are somehow not using the Microsoft
> runtimes "correctly", leading to some kind of initialization delay. [yes, I
> know this has really digressed into a MinGW discussion, and for that I am
> sorry]
>
> I want very much to use Microsoft's compilers to build Emacs, in order
> to find out what's wrong. However, for right now I don't have the
> intellectual bandwidth to chase that.
>
>  Sorry for the confusion,
>  -- /v\atthew
>

I came to our HQ today and found out that the stutter ist not occuring when
I'm directly connected to the domain. I only have this problem when I'm
"offline" or connected with VPN.

I'm not sure, but it looks like emacs is trying to resolve something which
is failing when the domain is not properly connected.

Reto