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> From: Rugxulo <rugxulo AT gmail DOT com>
> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:48:51 -0700 (PDT)
>=20
> > > > What is the CPU speed?
> >
> > > 566 MHz, 128 MB RAM
> >
> > At such a speed, I'm not surprised it's a bit slow. =A0If it's no=
t
> > too much trouble, could you please tell how much time it takes fo=
r
> > "emacs -Q" to start up on this system?
>=20
> Um, I would hope that 566 Mhz should be fast enough!!!

It _is_ fast, but Emacs 23 is a large executable (9MB stripped vs 6MB
for Emacs 22.3 and 5MB for Emacs 21.4), so just loading it could take
some time, at least with a cold cache.

> Font-lock is on by default now, so maybe he should turn that off.

If the machine is too slow for that, yes.