Questions tagged [performance]
is for Emacs performance-related issues. Use additional tags to indicate which aspects of Emacs the performance issue is about: startup, navigation, search, screen updates, compilation, execution, debugging, and so on.
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How to find what causes ESS to run very slow?
When working with an iESS session of R and an R file open side-by-side, I noticed extremely slow performance when typing indetifiers. Typing braces and operators is fine, however, when an identifier ...
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byte-compile much slower in X (vs. -nw)
Setup
Windows 10 host with X server (VcXsrv)
Linux guest (Arch) in virtual machine (VMware)
Benchmark
(defmacro measure-time (&rest body)
"Measure the time it takes to evaluate BODY."
`(let ...
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csv-mode is very slow
Just about any buffer with csv-mode enabled gets very slow/unresponsive, regardless of how big the file is. It takes up to half a second to jump to the next line/character. Any idea why that is?
I ...
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Profiling org-mode init file
My initialization file is organized in org-mode with src snippets. Is there a way I can profile it to see which snippets take the most time to evaluate? When my initialization file was in Elisp, I was ...
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Find cause of cpu-usage?
Is there some way to find out, what in Emacs is causing spurious cpu usage?
Since a few days I notice Emacs retaining high CPU usage despite not being used actively, having no subprocesses, and not ...
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hide-show with linum
When working on huge files, it seems that when hide-show collapses a large multi-line block, linum still creates hidden overlays for every line in the hidden block leading to unresponsive emacs. Is ...
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how can I debug or fix slowness in org-cycle?
running org-cycle appears to hang sometimes. I've run
M-x profiler-start
<tab> ;; bound to org-cycle
C-g ;; to cancel apparently-hung command
M-x profiler-report
and I see that a bunch of time ...
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Debugging slow find-file performance
Trying to figure out why find-file (C-x C-f) operations are taking a long time on Windows 10 with emacs 26.3. I tried to do profiling and got following results.
- command-execute ...
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Performantly filter against a custom time-like property
My agenda view processes many items with SCHEDULED and DEADLINE fields, and fully generates from scratch in about 0.3s. However, if I append CUSTOM_SCHEDULED<"<now>" to my agenda view ...
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How are unrelated modes enabled?
I've been an emacs user for about a year now and I use it for Haskell programming. I chose to go the vanilla emacs route and customized a plain init file as I went along.
Over time, however, I ...
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Remove scrollbar, faster
I like a clean interface. One without the clutter of scroll bars, or menu bars. So, to remove them, I have the following in my init.el
(progn
(menu-bar-mode -1)
(scroll-bar-mode -1)
(tooltip-...
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C++-mode indenting performance depends on length of previous function?
Using c++-mode in emacs23.
UPDATE: In response to some early comments, I tested on emacs24 and emacs25, and see exactly the same behavior. I don't have convenient access to emacs26 or emacs27 (25 ...
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Emacs is extremly slow on battery, normal on power
I have a weird problem where my emacs setup is extremely slow (as in takes a long time to show typed characters) when my laptop is running on battery. Once I connect it to power, the speed is normal.
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Troubleshooting a hanging `list-processes`
Normally I'd use M-x list-processes to see what Emacs is running in the background. But in this case list-processes itself hangs. What is the right thing to do in this situation?
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Memoize with cache on filesystem persisted between sessions
The memoize package provides a memoize wrapper that installs a memoized function over the original functions. (memoize 'expensive-function) will replace expensive-function in place with a memoized ...
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Emacs stops displaying typing until focus moved out of and then back into editor window
I'm currently running RHEL 7.6 and whatever version of emacs comes with it (I don't have access to my system at the moment so can't provide the version number). Sometime in the last 2 weeks my sys ...
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Performance issue of c-mode
When I'm pressing C-p/n moving the cursor around, the redisplaying is quite lagging. A profile of CPU give
+ command-execute 527 59%
- ...
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Speed issue with omnisharp go-to-definition
Getting a rather sizable speed issue with using go-to-definition from omnisharp. Ran the profiler, and received nearly 50% of the cpu time dedicated between:
isearch-printing-char
and
omnisharp-go-...
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Why is avy-goto-line so slow?
If I open a file with, say, 2 lines, then when I call avy-goto-line emacs shows me in the beginning of each line the keybinding to move the cursor over there.
But try it in a bit longer file (I use a ...
