From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Oct 11 07:15:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA17540 for ports-outgoing; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 07:15:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA17529 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 07:15:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ginger.eng.umd.edu (ginger.eng.umd.edu [129.2.103.20]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.8.0/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA12775; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 10:15:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by ginger.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA22586; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 10:15:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: ginger.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 10:15:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@ginger.eng.umd.edu To: Richard Heller cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/editors.html In-Reply-To: <199610110209.WAA22619@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, Richard Heller wrote: > Emacs takes a long time (about 10 seconds) to start up on my computer. I'm > running a 486/66 with 32M of ram. What would cause it to start so slow? emacs is a huge program, that needs dynamic loading support from about a dozen different shared libraries. That's what takes so long, all that relinking. Try Xemacs, it takes even longer to start up! > > Thanks, > Rich > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------