Re: emacs trying to load too many files at startup

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

 > > Cc: address@hidden
 > > From: Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden>
 > > I set a breakpoint on Fexpand_file_name instead and that lead to:
 > > 
 > > (gdb)  xbacktrace
 > > "locate-file-internal"
 > > "locate-file"
 > > "mapcar"
 > > "command-line"
 > > "normal-top-level"
 > > 
 > > 
 > > And that seems to indicate this code:
 > > 
 > >   ;; Convert preloaded file names to absolute.
 > >   (setq load-history
 > >      (mapcar (lambda (elt)
 > >                (if (and (stringp (car elt))
 > >                         (not (file-name-absolute-p (car elt))))
 > >                    (cons (locate-file (car elt) load-path
 > >                                       load-suffixes)
 > >                          (cdr elt))
 > >                  elt))
 > >              load-history))
 > 
 > Do we know that this code alone is responsible for those 2000 extra
 > calls to stat64?  Is it possible that there's some other code besides
 > Fexpand_file_name that causes some of those calls?

I'm reasonable sure. 4 versions of each file are stat-ed: .el .elc
.el.gz .elc.gz and each is looked up in a few directories in the
load-path...