Re: [AUCTeX] Long loading time

[Tassilo Horn]

jfbu <address@hidden> writes:

> I have applied the patch. Now the loading time is divided by three,
> going down from 5 seconds to about 1.5 seconds. (on TL2014,
> on TL2015, we go down from 1 second to 1/3 of a second)

Ok, cool.  I'll make a new release anytime soon.

> And I see indeed only three calls to kpsewhich
>
> kpsewhich --progname latex --expand-path 
> $SYSTEXMF:$TEXMFLOCAL:$TEXMFMAIN:$TEXMFDIST
> kpsewhich --progname latex --expand-path $TEXMFHOME
> kpsewhich --progname latex --expand-path 
> $TEXMFHOME:$TEXMFMAIN:$TEXMFLOCAL:$TEXMFDIST
>
> If there was a way to combine the three into one, that would gain an
> additional factor of 3 in launch time of AUCTeX.

No, I don't think there is a good way.  Differerent part of auctex query
different vars.

Bye,
Tassilo