Re: Emacs 23.0 is much slower starting than Emacs 22.3

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:21:32 +0000
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> 
> > How many seconds does it take to run "sed -n -e s/xyzzy/xyzzy/p" on
> > all those files, on that machine?  (That should give us a baseline of
> > the disk and filesystem performance.)
> 
> >From a cold start, "time grep wtioxxhs $BUFFERS" gave
> real    0m1.798s
> user    0m0.015s
> sys     0m0.034s
> 
> Second time round, with the files presumably in the file cache:
> real    0m0.034s
> user    0m0.012s
> sys     0m0.020s
> 
> So I don't think my PC's disk drives are the cause.

Right, looks like neither the disk nor the filesystem are the factor.

So we need to find which Emacs primitives became slower in v23.