From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Francis Litterio <flitterio@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: CVS Emacs on Windows XP takes 60 seconds to start
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:30:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvod35z4ko.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uzlmp7vxd.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:25:18 +0300")
> Beyond that, I intend to make changes in the code such that the file
> security information is requested only when the caller of `stat'
> really needs that. The absolute majority of `stat' calls during
> startup come from functions like `file-exists-p' and `load' (via
> `openp') that only need to know if the file exists and is a
> directory. I want to modify code so that Emacs doesn't even try to
> call lookup_account_sid on behalf of these callers. This should bring
> down the startup time even for situations such as yours, where a
> firewall blocks access to LDAP.
Making it lazier is probably a good idea, but if the info will
eventually be needed anyway, maybe we should also eagerly featch this
info (asynchronously). After all, even a 10s delay is quite noticeable.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-03 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-02 19:45 CVS Emacs on Windows XP takes 60 seconds to start Francis Litterio
2008-09-02 20:14 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-02 20:16 ` Francis Litterio
2008-09-02 20:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-02 20:55 ` Francis Litterio
2008-09-02 21:18 ` Francis Litterio
2008-09-02 21:19 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-02 21:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-02 21:50 ` Francis Litterio
2008-09-03 0:41 ` Francis Litterio
2008-09-03 0:57 ` Jason Rumney
2008-09-03 1:04 ` Francis Litterio
2008-09-03 3:04 ` Francis Litterio
2008-09-03 3:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-03 3:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-03 14:30 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-09-03 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-03 18:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-03 19:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-03 15:14 ` Francis Litterio
2008-09-03 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
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