Re: Tracking down why emacsclient -c is so slow

[Alex Bennee]

2009/8/22 Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de>:
>
> Am 22.08.2009 um 10:10 schrieb Alex Bennee:
>
>> The current delays I'm seeing are a little excessive
>
> I'm using old Apple hardware (almost six years old), an old Apple OS (Tiger,
> i.e., Mac OS X 10.4), a slow CPU (PowerPC 7447A at 1.5 GHz, 512 kB L2
> cache), a slow graphics card (ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 RV360M11 with 64 MB),
> and also an outdated X server (XFree 86 4.4.0 based). The window manager is
> Blackbox. GNU Emacs 23.1.50 is compiled with debug support. After two, maybe
> three seconds, the first frame appears when I launch GNU Emacs with -Q, and
> also when I leave away the -Q, but then it takes some ten seconds until the
> Emacs desktop is rebuilt and I can start to use GNU Emacs. Emacsclient -c is
> faster, say, one second.
>
> Compared to native Aqua/Quartz applications it's lightning fast. Compared to
> GNU Emacs 18.57 (?) it's slower than a snail.

It's definitely something other than graphics performance. The frame
actually appears very quickly it just takes a while before I can start
editing.

> Is the situation improved when you use GNU Emacs 23.1 from some installer
> package? Or is it improved when you compile it yourself, optimised for your
> hard- and software?

I'm running the current Gentoo 23.1 ebuild, compiled obviously for my machine.

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