Re: Extremely slow (buggy?) function

[JD Smith <jdtsmith@gmail.com>]

On Feb 28, 2008, at 1:07 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Can you take a look at this report?
> It seems to be a performance problem in idlwave.

>> From: Karsten Rodenacker <karsten.rodenacker@helmholtz-muenchen.de>
>> Date: 28 February 2008 15:22:16 GMT
>> To: aquamacs-bugs@aquamacs.org
>> Subject: [Aquamacs-bugs] Extremely slow (buggy?) function
>>
>> Enter your bug report here.
>>
>> After starting and using idlwave module emacs becomes extremely slow
>> and unresponsive during the message:
>>
>> Loading and normalizing library catalogs in idle time...done


This is to be expected when you have a large (IDL) search path, or  
(especially) one which includes slow network shares.  During this  
message, IDLWAVE is searching the path for `.idlwave_catalog' files,  
and loading them.  Try setting `idlwave-use-library-catalogs' to nil  
to see if the problem goes away.  If so, it probably relates to the  
size of the search path (held in `idlwave-path-alist', which is  
gathered from the IDL shell, or explicitly set in `idlwave-library- 
path'), or to a slow network share.  Another option would be to  
explicitly set idlwave-library-path to a smaller file tree.

>> This behaviour appeared with Version 1.3

I'm not aware of any recent changes in behavior for library catalogs.

JD