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From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: Emacs 23.0 is much slower starting than Emacs 22.3
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:02:57 -0400
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    Emacs 23 thus starts up at about three fifths the speed of 22.  This is
    very noticeable, and not a good thing.

How about putting code to record the current time
at a few places in startup.el, in both versions?
That way you can maybe find out which parts of the code
have got slower.