Re: Extremely slow (buggy?) function

[JD Smith]

On Feb 28, 2008, at 1:07 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Can you take a look at this report?
> It seems to be a performance problem in idlwave.

> > From: Karsten Rodenacker <address@hidden>
> > Date: 28 February 2008 15:22:16 GMT
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: [Aquamacs-bugs] Extremely slow (buggy?) function
> >
> > Enter your bug report here.
> >
> > After starting and using idlwave module emacs becomes extremely slow
> > and unresponsive during the message:
> >
> > Loading and normalizing library catalogs in idle time...done


This is to be expected when you have a large (IDL) search path, or  
(especially) one which includes slow network shares.  During this  
message, IDLWAVE is searching the path for `.idlwave_catalog' files,  
and loading them.  Try setting `idlwave-use-library-catalogs' to nil  
to see if the problem goes away.  If so, it probably relates to the  
size of the search path (held in `idlwave-path-alist', which is  
gathered from the IDL shell, or explicitly set in `idlwave-library- 
path'), or to a slow network share.  Another option would be to  
explicitly set idlwave-library-path to a smaller file tree.

> > This behaviour appeared with Version 1.3

I'm not aware of any recent changes in behavior for library catalogs.

JD