Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Miles> would be a good idea to have an `emacs21-for-slow-machines' package. > Naw. Do > $ emacs21 --no-site-file -q -nw > $ emacs21 -q -nw > $ emacs21 --no-site-file -nw > $ emacs21 -nw > $ emacs21 > etc. to see where the problem lies. The first should be lightning fast.
This illustrates one thing that I've been hesitating about reporting as bugs, as it affects many packages. (I have reported it for at least one package though, and it was fixed.) Many Debian startup scripts for emacs are badly written. Several of them load or require files. Typically, only autoloads should be used, and possibly global-set-key or similar. I have removed most debian emacs packages to get reasonable speed, but still rarely use the debian emacs package since my standalone compile starts faster. Perhaps someone wants to go through all emacs packages and look at what they are doing...
