Re: Silent autoloading

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> > Stefan, any insights?  Having Emacs sit silently in the minibuffer for
>> > prolonged periods of time, without saying anything, makes me think it's
>> > stuck, so at the very least let's have an option to get the old
>> > behavior back.
>> 
>> I agree with the basic premise, but I'm wondering what's the
>> relationship: what kind of machine are you using where loading a .elc
>> file is not virtually instantaneous?
>> What's the actual use case where you've seen this problem of having
>> Emacs sit silently for a prolonged period of time?

> emacs -Q
> C-x C-f /foo:b

> On "windows32 home-c4e4a596f7 2.5.1 2600 i786-pc Intel unknown MinGW",
> a 3-GHz single-CPU machine, it takes Emacs 7 seconds to echo the `b'
> after the colon.  This is with a cold cache; with warm cache, it's
> still 2 seconds, which is annoyingly visible.

> On "Linux fencepost 2.6.16.29-xen #1 SMP Wed Dec 6 07:32:36 EST 2006
> x86_64 GNU/Linux", a 2-GHz Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2214
> machine, the numbers are 4 seconds and 3 seconds, accordingly.

> Maybe Tramp is a large package, but then "C-x C-f" is a very
> frequently used command.

Ah, yes, I see that for Tramp indeed.
How 'bout making Tramp output something before loading itself?


        Stefan