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Re: compiled programs load very slow
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Nelson)
Sun Jan 1 11:07:58 1995
From: Michael Nelson <nelson@seahunt.imat.com>
To: wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi (Lars Wirzenius)
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 1995 07:12:45 -0800 (PST)
Cc: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
Reply-To: nelson@seahunt.imat.com
In-Reply-To: <199501011419.QAA04610@kruuna.helsinki.fi> from "Lars Wirzenius" at Jan 1, 95 04:19:51 pm
Lars Wirzenius wrote:
>
> X-Mn-Key: announce
>
> From: consp05@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (SethMeister G.)
> Subject: Re: compiled programs load very slow
> Organization: Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
> Keywords: emacs slow load speedup
> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
> Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius)
> Followup-to: comp.os.linux.misc
>
> Dear All Emacs-Painfully-Slow_loading-Problem-Havers,
>
> The following is a solution I found (I am running EMACS 19.28 on a
> 486/66 with 8M of RAM, with emacs compiled for X, with dynamic libs)
> so that emacs no longer takes 10 seconds to load - now it takes 2
> seconds the first time I run it, then, every invocation after that, it
> loads INSTANTLY. Do the following:
>
> 1) Make SURE the sticky bit is set on your emacs executable (else it
> will take 2 seconds to load every time.)
>
> 2) This is the IMPORTANT PART- remove the /usr/local/lib/emacs/site-lisp/
> directory (this should be empty). Then, link the
> /usr/local/lib/emacs/19.28/lisp/ directory to the
> /usr/local/lib/emacs/site-lisp/ directory.
>
> 3) Execute EMACS and have fun with the speed :).
Good tip... it works for xemacs-19.11 (ex-lucid-emacs), too, if
you change it to the following:
1) Make SURE the sticky bit is set on your xemacs executable (else it
will take 2 seconds to load every time.)
2) This is the IMPORTANT PART- remove the /usr/local/lib/xemacs/site-lisp/
directory (this should be empty). Then, link the
/usr/local/lib/xemacs/19.11/lisp/ directory to the
/usr/local/lib/xemacs/site-lisp/ directory.
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