Re: menu-bar-update-hook performance problems

[Kevin Rodgers]

Dan Debertin wrote:
> One of the extensions in my .emacs is causing performance problems,
> but I'm having trouble figuring out which one it is. From everything
> elp.el is telling me, menu-bar-update-hook is being called *way* too
> many times a second, but I can't seem to find a way to tell what's
> causing it to be called. One of these bits of information would get
> me most of the way there:
>
> o Under exactly what circumstances menu-bar-update-hook is called. A
>     usenet search shows that some think it gets called too frequently,
>     but I can't find any information in the elisp manual about it
>     apart from "This normal hook is run whenever the user clicks on
>     the menu bar, before displaying a submenu". I'm definitely not
>     clicking on the menu-bar several times a second; in fact I'm not
>     touching it at all.

Does `M-x apropos-value RET menu-bar-update-hook RET' reveal anything?

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