Re: user feedback (was: Re: [Texmacs-dev] Different versions of Guile)

[Joris van der Hoeven]

> Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden> writes:
> > TeXmacs is extremely slow when booting it for the first time after
> > turning on the computer, but acceptably fast afterwards. What can
> > we do in order to reduce the initial boot time?
>
> Add a progress bar like in OpenOffice.org? :)
>
> More seriously, more than a certain slowness of TeXmacs, what I find
> lacking is user feedback for actions.
>
> For example, while browsing the manual, I though TeXmacs was stuck while
> in fact it was loading a web page.
>
> It would be nice to have a feedback for most of user actions (like a
> changing pointer or a changing icon, a progress bar at the bottom, ...).

Sure.

> Regarding your initial question, have you a repartition of startup time
> for the different subsystems (guile, font loading, ...)? Can I have this
> startup time easily, is TeXmacs instrumented?

I added a --debug-bench option in the CVS version.
We can further improve it later.

But what I still don't understand is why TeXmacs
is so much slower at the *first* time one boots it.
And this is hard to bench (modulo turning on/off the computer).