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Re: Emacs 23.0 is much slower starting than Emacs 22.3


From: Alan Mackenzie
Subject: Re: Emacs 23.0 is much slower starting than Emacs 22.3
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:14:44 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.9i

Hi, Stefan!

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 09:23:34AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I have an extremely medium speed processor (Athlon 1.2 GHz) and, at
> > the moment, a well-padded .emacs.desktop.

> > Starting Emacs 22.3 takes 23 seconds.
> > Starting Emacs 23.0 takes 38 seconds.

> > Emacs 23 thus starts up at about three fifths the speed of 22.  This
> > is very noticeable, and not a good thing.

> > I haven't tried to tie down why this is.

> Could it be due to the extra font-selection efforts?
> You could compare the GUI vs text modes, to get a first
> impression of where the time difference goes.

The above times were on tty's.  Trying it on X-Windows, there was no
difference (or, at most, 1 or 2 seconds longer).

>         Stefan

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).




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