ESS very slow on Win98

[A.J. Rossini]

>>>>> "CCB" == Charles C Berry <cberry at tajo.ucsd.edu> writes:


    CCB> Dear ESS users/developers;

    CCB> I have a Pentium III 128MB 700MHz Win98 notebook.

    CCB> I run R on it, and prefer to run under emacs and ESS.

    CCB> But some processes take an inordinate amount of time.

    CCB> Particularly vexing is the time required for dynamic
    CCB> completion.

    CCB> Starting R in a clean directory (i.e. no ./.RData), typing a
    CCB> single character at the prompt, then pressing C-c TAB or TAB
    CCB> hangs things for about 45 seconds. A subsequent dynamic
    CCB> completion requires about 10 seconds.

    CCB> Now I know that building the object name database will speed
    CCB> things up, but this is just one example of the relative
    CCB> slowness of ESS on this platform compared to my 2+ year old
    CCB> Ultra 10. Other operations (ess-load-file) are likewise slow.

    CCB> FWIW, compiling the lisp files has no perceivable effect.

    CCB> Advice appreciated.

Weird.  I'm seeing no problems under Unix, sigh.

10 seconds on FOLLOWUP???  I'd expect the inital 45 seconds, that
seems reasonable given, for example, the problems with S-PLUS 5.x and
constructing the completion name database.  That is really bizarre.
I'm going to have to install ESS/Emacs/R on a windows machine here (or
see if anyone local has that setup.

Can anyone else verify on Win98? (with possibly slower hardware?)

BTW, which version of Emacs are you using?  20.7 or different?

best,
-tony

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