On 4/12/2010 7:52 PM, Dan Tsafrir wrote:
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 00:39, Jon TURNEY<jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk>  wrote:

I've conducted a few repeated measurements and it looks as though
setting LANG to be en_US somewhat reduces the start time of emacs-x11:
instead of ~30 seconds with LANG=C.UTF-8, it take ~27 seconds
LANG=en_US. While this is ~10% less, waiting 27 seconds for emacs to
open still seems unreasonable.

Any other ideas?

Hmm....

You don't have any emacs fonts being set via ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources?

Actually, I do. However, following the suggestion of Ken Brown

    http://www.mail-archive.com/cyg...@cygwin.com/msg107126.html

I've invoked emacs with -Q (and also, just to make sure, removed my
~/.Xdefaults). It did not change anything: emacs still takes ~30
seconds to open.

It still might be font related. You mentioned earlier in the thread that you installed all available font packages. Do you have a very large ~/.fontconfig directory as a result? Maybe emacs has to process this every time it starts up. (I'm not sure.)

What if you delete this directory and do a minimal Cygwin install without so many fonts? I think the first time you start emacs it may call fc-cache to populate ~/.fontconfig, but after that it might start faster.

Ken

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