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bug#1578: emacsclient -c make emacs very slow (under Mac OSX)


From: Adrian Robert
Subject: bug#1578: emacsclient -c make emacs very slow (under Mac OSX)
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:02:45 +0200

First, I use emacs -nw to open a normal emacs in the terminal.  Then I
use emacsclient -c to open a carbon frame.  Now the terminal emacs
becomes very slow and unresponsive. (But the CPU is not running high).
Even after the carbon frame is closed, it is still same slow. (and I
have to close emacs and restart)

This is because the events are being passed only after a full run through the NS event loop. See line 3194 in nsterm.m (the first one of ns_select()). Ideally this would drop down to the regular select () if the NS application ("carbon" frame) is not active. However, I haven't found a way to detect this without also causing the problem of failing to pick up the app becoming active again until after a long delay. I think the select() gets called with a long timeout and, no matter if cocoa-experimental-ctrl-g is set or not, no interruption of it happens.

Since there is only one thread, an external call to, e.g. - applicationWillBecomeActive won't go through until after this select terminates.







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