On 26 June 2016 at 13:11, Julian Gilbey wrote:
| On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 05:28:00AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| >
| > On 24 June 2016 at 10:26, Julian Gilbey wrote:
| > | Package: ess
| > | Version: 16.04-2
| > | Severity: normal
| > |
| > | Hello Dirk,
| > |
| > | For some reason, ess has started taking a massive time to load at
| > | emacs startup time: on my old machine, it is taking about two minutes.
| > | (On my newer machine, the relative time differences are similar:
| >
| > Well I cannot confirm that as my home and work machines all behave well with
| > it. Can you triage your .emacs down?
|
| Hello Dirk,
|
| I've tried it again (this time on my faster machine) with .emacs
| skipped (using -q). I do have quite a few packages installed, but
| they don't seem to be causing the difficulty. I can see the
| initialisation just sitting at the line when it's loading 50ess, and I
| have no idea why :-(
|
| Without ess installed:
|
| erdos:~ $ time emacs -batch -q -eval '(nil)'
[...]
| Symbol's function definition is void: nil
|
| real 0m0.682s
| user 0m0.600s
| sys 0m0.076s
|
| With ess installed:
|
| erdos:~ $ time emacs -batch -q -eval '(nil)'
[...]
| Symbol's function definition is void: nil
|
| real 0m6.675s
| user 0m0.904s
| sys 0m0.120s
|
| So ess is taking something like 90% of the initialisation time,
| bizarrely.
I can't really help you. I don't program elisp. I can forward this for you
(you know how it goes) but I honestly think we should close this here and you
refile at
https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS/issues
I lurk there as they gave me write access just for the debian/ directory.
I honestly cannot see any other solution than patient triaging,
(un)installing one package at a time. Maybe starting in an empty Debian
testing Docker container?
Cheers, Dirk
| Best wishes,
|
| Julian
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