Re: Emacs 23.0 is much slower starting than Emacs 22.3

[John covici]

I have noticed this as well using text mode.  It seems particularly
slow loading my desktop (106 buffers).  Also, sending mail is slower
-- looks like lisp processing is just slower.

on Wednesday 10/22/2008 Stefan Monnier(address@hidden) 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.
 > 
 > 
 >         Stefan
 > 

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