Whay is JDE/Xemacs startup so slow?

[Altmann, Michael]

Do other people find that it takes 20 secs to load jde?  This seems
excessively long.  I am running xemacs 21.1 on a solaris server box (I'm not
sure its exact speed).  Without jde it takes just a second to start xemacs.
There are many messages about "loading regexp-opt" on the status line.  Is
there some sort of debug I should turn on to track what it is doing?