[ESS] Delay on left-parenthesis

[Ken Williams]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vitalie Spinu [mailto:spinuvit at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 11:23 AM
> To: Ken Williams
> Cc: Rodney Sparapani; ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [ESS] Delay on left-parenthesis
>
>   >> Ken Williams <Ken.Williams at windlogics.com>
>   >> on Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:14:21 -0500 wrote:
>
>   > In the buffer that's being slow about it, that command takes 41 seconds.
>
> What is this buffer? *R* or script?
>
>   > In a different buffer that doesn't seem to be misbehaving, it returns
>   > instantly with the right answer.
>
> And what is this buffer?

Both those buffers were *R* buffers.

>
> Both of the above are the very first invocation after the process started,
> right?

No, actually.  The really slow one was the *R* buffer where I'm seeing the pause each and every time I type 'head('.  The fast one was an *R* buffer that seemed to be acting fine, i.e. not demonstrating the pause.

If I open up a brand new *R* buffer and do M-: (ess-function-arguments "head"), it seems to take around 2 seconds.  The second invocation takes much less than a second.

So maybe ess-function-arguments is a red herring?  Not sure.  Unfortunately I lost the problematic buffer, so I can't investigate that particular case anymore.

 -Ken

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