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Re: emacs-x11 takes 30-40 sec to open after upgrading to cygwin-1.7
- From: Dan Tsafrir <dants at cs dot technion dot ac dot il>
- To: Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>, cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 02:52:15 +0300
- Subject: Re: emacs-x11 takes 30-40 sec to open after upgrading to cygwin-1.7
- References: <b2c39fcb1003290333r688e2f9dm2370567a67986092@mail.gmail.com> <4BB0D1FE.3020005@dronecode.org.uk> <b2c39fcb1003291541n4be5648bic90a00573ba3a5b2@mail.gmail.com> <4BBA587A.5030706@dronecode.org.uk>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 00:39, Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> I've conducted a few repeated measurements and it looks as though
>> setting LANG to be en_US somewhat reduces the start time of emacs-x11:
>> instead of ~30 seconds with LANG=C.UTF-8, it take ~27 seconds
>> LANG=en_US. While this is ~10% less, waiting 27 seconds for emacs to
>> open still seems unreasonable.
>>
>> Any other ideas?
>
> Hmm....
>
> You don't have any emacs fonts being set via ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources?
Actually, I do. However, following the suggestion of Ken Brown
http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg107126.html
I've invoked emacs with -Q (and also, just to make sure, removed my
~/.Xdefaults). It did not change anything: emacs still takes ~30
seconds to open.
What else?
---Dan
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