bug#24091: 24.5; High CPU usage at startup while hidden

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Dominik Schrempf <dominik.schrempf@gmail.com> writes:

> I do not want to bring up old threads,

On the contrary, please do feel free to bring up any open bug thread.

> but I am having the exact same problem with Emacs+XMonad for years
> now.

That's interesting information, because I thought that loop was supposed
to be working for XMonad.

> Did you come to a conclusion or find a fix back in September?

We left things inconclusive, but revisiting this now, I see no reason
against simply removing this waiting loop:

v1-0001-Don-t-wait-for-frame-to-become-visible.patch
Description: patch

> On Tue, Sep 06 2016, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>
>> Maybe we should stop waiting after some time has passed, like 0.5
>> sec.  Does that work in this case?  Does the frame always appears
>> within half a second when workspaces are not involved?

I don't think any particular timed wait can be guaranteed to work in all
cases, since this involves multiple processes.