Re: Gnu Emacs way slower than XEmacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)
> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 09:36:45 +0200
> 
> I'm guessing that the long delay will be in the call to
> accept-process-output, and that this delay will be shorter in XEmacs
> than in Emacs.
> 
> If that's really the case, then, indeed, it's the subprocess and
> network I/O operations that need to be tweaked.

Since the OP reports that both Cygwin and native Windows builds of
XEmacs are similarly speedy, it sounds improbable that subprocess I/O
is involved.

But that's a speculation; some digging is needed here.

> Hm.  I browsed the C source but didn't see anything there that's
> obviously specific to Windows.

Perhaps src/w32proc.c will help to see that ;-)