Re: 21.4.14 Build Problem

Jake> Looking at it again, I don't think I have a GC problem with Jake> the pdumper. I do think, however, that XEmacs start-up time Jake> when processing my init file is definitely slower when using Jake> the pdumper. Would that make sense? Is it Supposed To Be Jake> That Way? No, and no. Startup time _is_ presumably affected, but all the additional time should be spent in initialization of the Lisp environment, ie, _before_ init files are processed. I imagine you've thought of this, but didn't you recently update your packages as well? Is it possible that you're confounding increases in autoload processing or package initialization time due to changes in the packages with slowness in XEmacs itself? Note that XEmacs 21.4 is probably somewhat slower than 21.1; a lot of effort went into tuning 21.1 for performance, while 21.4 was extremely feature-rich. However, there should not be any noticable difference between 21.4.x, for x < 14, and 21.4.14. Also, Motif is known to have bad performance interactions with widgets, in the generic sense that all of tabs, progress gauges, and dialogs have had flickering and redundant redisplay reported with Motif. It is known to have extremely bad performance in clipboard interaction (shouldn't affect startup, though, unless you're doing something really fancy in init). It is known to interact badly with standard configurations to optimize Xt Expose processing. I'm sorry to put the burden of disentangling all that on you, but ... that's Motif AFAICT. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.