Re: 23.0.60: slower in starting up?

[T. V. Raman]

I'm running on alinux console with the monitor turned off, so I
couldn't care less about the fonts in use;-)


>>>>> "Claus" == Claus  <address@hidden> writes:
    Claus> Well, as mentioned before in other threads, Emacs
    Claus> 23.0.60 using the new (default) font-backend is
    Claus> (depending on your architecture I guess) sometimes
    Claus> magnitudes (hope no one will flame me for using this
    Claus> word) slower for me, esp. on buffer navigation (C-n,
    Claus> C-p, ...).
    Claus> 
    Claus> But that's probably the price to pay when surfing on
    Claus> the bleeding edge trunk-builds. I'm confident the
    Claus> developers will bring back the usual performance and
    Claus> stability eventually.
    Claus> 
    Claus> You could try starting Emacs with
    Claus> --disable-font-backend which should bring back
    Claus> performance. But on my system, Emacs crashes during
    Claus> startup when doing this (hard to reproduce and on
    Claus> changing lines in my startup file). So I have no other
    Claus> choice but bear with the new font-backend, hope it
    Claus> shall stabilize soon.
    Claus> 
    Claus> Claus
    Claus> 
    Claus> 
    Claus> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 3:20 PM, T. V. Raman
    Claus> <address@hidden> wrote:
    >> With the same .emacs I use for 23.0.50, ie loading all the
    >> same packages, startup of 23.0.60 feels many orders of
    >> magnitude slower than 23.0.50. Have others run into this?
    >> 
    >> --
    >> Best Regards, --raman
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    Claus> 


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