From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Slow frame creation when many faces defined Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 13:07:10 -0800 Message-ID: References: <36FCC05F-335C-4636-AA20-9421BC6C3520@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1131829705 8086 80.91.229.2 (12 Nov 2005 21:08:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 21:08:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 12 22:08:23 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eb2au-0002iP-Um for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 22:07:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eb2au-0007vm-7V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 16:07:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Eb2al-0007vh-I0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 16:07:19 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Eb2aj-0007vV-Vz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 16:07:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eb2aj-0007vS-SW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 16:07:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [148.87.122.30] (helo=rgminet01.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1Eb2aj-00021v-NQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 16:07:17 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.50]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.6/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id jACL7FX7029635 for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 14:07:15 -0700 Original-Received: from rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id jACL7FjE009318 for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 14:07:15 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap (dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw2-141-144-73-250.vpn.oracle.com [141.144.73.250]) by rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with SMTP id jACL7ERW009311 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 14:07:14 -0700 Original-To: "Emacs-Devel '" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <36FCC05F-335C-4636-AA20-9421BC6C3520@gmail.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE 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:45837 Archived-At: I've got a question about a noticeable lag in frame creation when many frames are defined. This can be reproduced with (let ((n 0)) (while (< n 1000) (make-face (make-symbol "someface")) (setq n (1+ n)))) then do C-x 5 2. This creates a lag of several seconds. This is neither here nor there, but: The frame creation appears _instantaneous_ with Emacs 20 on my (average) machine with Windows XP. Using 10000 instead of 1000, it takes about 3 seconds to evaluate the above expression and about 3 seconds to open the new frame. I confirm that, even with "only" 1000, it takes a couple of seconds to open the frame with Emacs 22 (July snapshot of CVS). So, there is maybe an order of magnitude difference between Emacs 20 and Emacs 22 in this regard. I don't know if that's significant in any way, but there it is.