Re: absurdly long startup time for emacs 21.2.1

[Andreas Schwab]

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

|> > From: Michael Vanier <mvanier@cs.caltech.edu>
|> > Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 21:24:30 -0700
|> > 
|> > I'm running emacs 21.2.1 from a Debian GNU/Linux distribution.  When I
|> > start it up, I see this in the minibuffer:
|> > 
|> > Loading 40mule-ucs (source)...
|> > 
|> > and the program hangs for about 30 seconds, until it finally comes back to
|> > life.
|> 
|> It's hard to say what is the problem without knowing what is
|> 40mule-ucs.

It's probably the same problem with excessive consing in Mule-UCS that I
have reported some time ago.  I tried to debug that, but I got lost in the
twisted maze of consing.

Andreas.

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