Re: [Mingw-users] emacs with mingw

[Earnie <ea...@us...>]

Andy Rushton wrote:
>> I do have two questions:
>> 1) When I start msys, or do a compile inside emacs, there's a very long
>> pause, maybe about 30s or so. Is that normal?
> 
> No, not for me. I get near-instant response.
> 

There are too many variables that may cause this for one person and not
another.  Besides the physical local hardware there is the network
interfaces for any mapped drive.  If the physical drive of a mapped
drive isn't available, it will sorely exacerbate the amount of time due
to the number of retries and timeouts for each try for the connection
establishment.  You may be able to work around this by starting an MSYS
shell while working in emacs so that the MSYS dll remains in memory and
preventing the DLL initialization with each command.  I've occasionally
considered writing a persistent MSYS application just to add to the
START folder but I don't have much need of it so have never gotten to it.

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