Re: emacs slow on dired renaming

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Robert Marshall <spam@capuchin.co.uk>
> Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 07:57:14 +0100
> 
> I have a build of emacs from the bzr trunk (of last week) for which
> dired renaming of files is very slow. It takes around 60 seconds to move
> 16 files to a subdirectory of their current location (within the same
> filesystem). The delay is spread across the files so each rename appears
> to take the same (c 5 seconds) time.

Try profiling Emacs with "M-x profile-start".  That might show you a
hint where the delay hides.