On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 02:37, Glenn Morris
<rgm@gnu.org> wrote:
>> I tried again with emacs -Q and the same thing happens. To be more
>> precise the startup time is about 40s at 100% CPU.
Is this with everything you try to debug, or just certain things?
Can you try M-x toggle-debug-on-quit, then interrupt Emacs with ctrl-g
during those 40 seconds and see if you get a backtrace?
Or try M-x edebug-defun on the `gdb' function, step through it, and see
what is taking the time.
Guesses: do you have a huge .gdb_history or ~/.gdbinit file?