From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alex Bennee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Tracking down why emacsclient -c is so slow Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:33:44 +0100 Message-ID: References: <399CF4B9-9CAD-4E68-BB8F-09EF6A787E43@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250940871 26861 80.91.229.12 (22 Aug 2009 11:34:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:34:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs mailing list To: Peter Dyballa Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 22 13:34:22 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MeorW-0007Cd-EU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:34:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33679 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MeorV-0003Z4-Iz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:34:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Meor4-0003Tn-IA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:33:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Meoqz-0003Lu-UZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:33:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56173 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Meoqz-0003LD-Oc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:33:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ew0-f211.google.com ([209.85.219.211]:52530) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Meoqz-0005RU-3x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:33:49 -0400 Original-Received: by ewy7 with SMTP id 7so1268900ewy.31 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:33:46 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.216.7.133 with SMTP id 5mr449906wep.32.1250940824918; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:33:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4989288d682909f4 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:67402 Archived-At: 2009/8/22 Peter Dyballa : > > Am 22.08.2009 um 10:10 schrieb Alex Bennee: > >> The current delays I'm seeing are a little excessive > > I'm using old Apple hardware (almost six years old), an old Apple OS (Tiger, > i.e., Mac OS X 10.4), a slow CPU (PowerPC 7447A at 1.5 GHz, 512 kB L2 > cache), a slow graphics card (ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 RV360M11 with 64 MB), > and also an outdated X server (XFree 86 4.4.0 based). The window manager is > Blackbox. GNU Emacs 23.1.50 is compiled with debug support. After two, maybe > three seconds, the first frame appears when I launch GNU Emacs with -Q, and > also when I leave away the -Q, but then it takes some ten seconds until the > Emacs desktop is rebuilt and I can start to use GNU Emacs. Emacsclient -c is > faster, say, one second. > > Compared to native Aqua/Quartz applications it's lightning fast. Compared to > GNU Emacs 18.57 (?) it's slower than a snail. It's definitely something other than graphics performance. The frame actually appears very quickly it just takes a while before I can start editing. > Is the situation improved when you use GNU Emacs 23.1 from some installer > package? Or is it improved when you compile it yourself, optimised for your > hard- and software? I'm running the current Gentoo 23.1 ebuild, compiled obviously for my machine. -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ http://www.half-llama.co.uk