Re: Startup timings

Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 01:29:26AM +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote: > > >> I'm going to try to find why init-x-win is so slow. >> > > > init-x-win spends close to all its time in init-global-faces. Which > splits its 2.4s run time into 0.4s to make the bold face, 1s for the > italic face and 1s for the bold italic one. This is... fascinating. > > > i imagine the time is doing font lookups. are you using stephen's xft? is your x server on a slow network connection? as for init-mule-at-startup, what is the value of `load-unicode-tables-at-dump-time'? if nil, it's maybe not too surprising that it takes some time, as it's loading all the unicode tables. if t, however (which is the default), these were already loaded at dump time, and retrieved using pdump, so the slowness would be strange.