ESS very slow on Win98
Thomas Stockton
stockton at neptuneandco.com
Thu Nov 30 20:34:25 CET 2000
Same things happens on a Pentium III 512MB 733MHz Win2k desktop.
Tom Stockton
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-ESS-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>[mailto:owner-ESS-help at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Charles C. Berry
>Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 10:16 AM
>To: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>Subject: ESS very slow on Win98
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>Dear ESS users/developers;
>
>I have a Pentium III 128MB 700MHz Win98 notebook.
>
>I run R on it, and prefer to run under emacs and ESS.
>
>But some processes take an inordinate amount of time.
>
>Particularly vexing is the time required for dynamic completion.
>
>Starting R in a clean directory (i.e. no ./.RData), typing a single
>character at the prompt, then pressing C-c TAB or TAB hangs things for
>about 45 seconds. A subsequent dynamic completion requires about 10
>seconds.
>
>Now I know that building the object name database will speed things up,
>but this is just one example of the relative slowness of ESS on this
>platform compared to my 2+ year old Ultra 10. Other operations
>(ess-load-file) are likewise slow.
>
>FWIW, compiling the lisp files has no perceivable effect.
>
>Advice appreciated.
>
>Chuck Berry
>
>Charles C. Berry (858) 534-2098
> Dept of Family/Preventive Medicine
>E mailto:cberry at tajo.ucsd.edu UC San Diego
>http://hacuna.ucsd.edu/members/ccb.html La Jolla, San Diego 92093-0645
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