Re: Speed kills -- 21.5 users will live a very long life.

SY> A simple comparison: XEmacs 21.4.14 (latest CVS + my PUI SY> enhancements) SY> time xemacs -kill SY> real 0m29.846s First, did you reboot, then run cold and hot timings? Second, if not, were there other instances running? Third, what is your platform? Fourth, are you connected to the net (those times look to me like you're blocking on a net look up -- you wouldn't happen to have gnus stuff in your init.el)? On a 450MHz PII with a normally optimized full error-checking (which mattaers a lot in mule) 21.5.16 plus Xft (which matters a bit) and some other junk that shouldn't be exercised, I get real 0m9.421s user 0m5.610s sys 0m0.170s This is a -vanilla warm start with another instance running, but I easily get a full desktop.el cold start (boot, log in, XEmacs is started by xsm) with almost all of the real time spent in font-lock (about 40 25~150KB buffers being fontified) in 3m30s real time on that machine. Slow, yes, but I don't see the huge difference that you do between 21.5 and 21.4. It really would help if you could give more information about what's going on in your initialization here. Surely something is horribly slow for you in 21.5, but unless you tell me I won't know.... -- 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.