Re: occasional pause (or stutter) on win32 emacs 23.0.95

[Lennart Borgman]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@eku.edu> wrote:
> Matthew Daniel wrote:
>>
>> Periodically, emacs will pause - often with the Windows hourglass. It
>> does accept my keystrokes, because when it "releases" they appear in
>> the current buffer. These pauses last about 3 seconds, and I would not
>> characterize them as variable in length. I have not found any
>> systematic way of inducing the pause, but they happen pretty
>> frequently during a C-x C-s sequence.
>>
>>
>
> I had similar problems using the official Gnu Emacs release on Windows
> Vista, using an HP EliteBook. The program would freeze up periodically, not
> responding to anything for several seconds at a time. This happened often
> enough (once every few minutes or so) to make it unusable. Same thing with
> the version shipped with Cygwin.
>
> I switched to the version packaged by Vincent Goulet, and now everything
> works very smoothly. I'm not sure what he does, but it fixed my problem. The
> site is here:
>
> http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/ressources/emacs/


It does not look as Vincent has modified any files, just added some
elisp files. Maybe someone should ask him how he compiles Emacs (if he
does that)?