Re: Emacs 23.0 is much slower starting than Emacs 22.3

[Stefan Monnier]

> I have an extremely medium speed processor (Athlon 1.2 GHz) and, at the
> moment, a well-padded .emacs.desktop.

> Starting Emacs 22.3 takes 23 seconds.
> Starting Emacs 23.0 takes 38 seconds.

> Emacs 23 thus starts up at about three fifths the speed of 22.  This is
> very noticeable, and not a good thing.

> I haven't tried to tie down why this is.

Could it be due to the extra font-selection efforts?
You could compare the GUI vs text modes, to get a first
impression of where the time difference goes.


        Stefan