Re: emacs-x11 takes 30-40 sec to open after upgrading to cygwin-1.7

[Dan Tsafrir <dants at cs dot technion dot ac dot il>]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 14:16, Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> wrote:
> On 4/12/2010 7:52 PM, Dan Tsafrir wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 00:39, Jon TURNEY<jon.turney@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/cygwin@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.

Hm, it seems I don't have a ~/.fontconfig. The output of

    find / -name '*fontconfig*' -print

in my system is given in the attached file (I've checked
/var/cache/fontconfig which turned out to be empty). I hope that's
normal.

--Dan

Attachment: find-fontconfig
Description: Binary data

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