Re: Silent autoloading

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:22:33 -0500
> 
> > Stefan, any insights?  Having Emacs sit silently in the minibuffer for
> > prolonged periods of time, without saying anything, makes me think it's
> > stuck, so at the very least let's have an option to get the old
> > behavior back.
> 
> I agree with the basic premise, but I'm wondering what's the
> relationship: what kind of machine are you using where loading a .elc
> file is not virtually instantaneous?
> What's the actual use case where you've seen this problem of having
> Emacs sit silently for a prolonged period of time?

emacs -Q
C-x C-f /foo:b

On "windows32 home-c4e4a596f7 2.5.1 2600 i786-pc Intel unknown MinGW",
a 3-GHz single-CPU machine, it takes Emacs 7 seconds to echo the `b'
after the colon.  This is with a cold cache; with warm cache, it's
still 2 seconds, which is annoyingly visible.

On "Linux fencepost 2.6.16.29-xen #1 SMP Wed Dec 6 07:32:36 EST 2006
x86_64 GNU/Linux", a 2-GHz Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2214
machine, the numbers are 4 seconds and 3 seconds, accordingly.

Maybe Tramp is a large package, but then "C-x C-f" is a very
frequently used command.