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25.3; Slow window and frame popup on Emacs 26+ (e.g. with Helm)

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From: Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 25.3; Slow window and frame popup on Emacs 26+ (e.g. with Helm)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 10:26:33 +0530

Since Emacs 26, I've noticed a slight delay (I'd say between 100ms and
500ms) in the creation of _some_ windows, most noticeably all Helm
windows.  This does not occur on Emacs 25.

I had initially reported the issue upstream to Helm:

	https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/issues/1976

But its maintainer believes Helm is not to blame here.

I use EXWM but it is not clear whether the issue is rooted there either.

Any insight on what could slow down window/frame creation on Emacs 26?


In GNU Emacs 25.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.28)
 of 2018-03-25 built on localhost
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11906000
Configured using:
 'configure
 CONFIG_SHELL=/gnu/store/mm0zclrzj3y7rj74hzyd0f224xly04fh-bash-minimal-4.4.12/bin/bash
 SHELL=/gnu/store/mm0zclrzj3y7rj74hzyd0f224xly04fh-bash-minimal-4.4.12/bin/bash
 --prefix=/gnu/store/6cflji7h6y0v15dvnccv7paaa7894gdc-emacs-25.3
 --enable-fast-install'

Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND DBUS GSETTINGS NOTIFY ACL
GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS
GTK3 X11

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_US.utf8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: EXWM
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--
Pierre Neidhardt

Message #8 received at 30995 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 30995 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30995: 25.3;
 Slow window and frame popup on Emacs 26+ (e.g. with Helm)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 01:07:47 -0400

notfound 30995 25.3
found 30995 26.1
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Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Since Emacs 26, I've noticed a slight delay (I'd say between 100ms and
> 500ms) in the creation of _some_ windows, most noticeably all Helm
> windows.  This does not occur on Emacs 25.
>
> I had initially reported the issue upstream to Helm:
>
> 	https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/issues/1976
>
> But its maintainer believes Helm is not to blame here.
>
> I use EXWM but it is not clear whether the issue is rooted there either.
>
> Any insight on what could slow down window/frame creation on Emacs 26?

I think this might be a similar case to a recent emacs-devel thread[1].
Does changing x-wait-for-event-timeout affect things?  If so, it's
likely fixed in latest master by [2: 2a192e21cf] and [3: 00c1f771f2].

[1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-03/msg00807.html

[2: 2a192e21cf]: 2018-03-29 19:11:47 -0400
  Don't wait for visible frames to become visible
  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=2a192e21cf3b04b7f830b4971c1508c611e13a3c

[3: 00c1f771f2]: 2018-03-29 19:17:34 -0400
  * src/xterm.c (x_make_frame_visible): Fix typo in previous change.
  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=00c1f771f2a51ffa675ec5a07ea330f2605cd302

Message #15 received at 30995 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar <at> gmail.com>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 30995 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30995: 25.3;
 Slow window and frame popup on Emacs 26+ (e.g. with Helm)
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:11:57 +0530

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	(setq x-wait-for-event-timeout nil)

fixed it for me on 26-RC1.  Thanks a lot!

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt

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Message #18 received at 30995 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 30995 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30995: 25.3;
 Slow window and frame popup on Emacs 26+ (e.g. with Helm)
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 18:51:51 -0400

tags 30995 fixed
close 30995 27.1
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Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 	(setq x-wait-for-event-timeout nil)
>
> fixed it for me on 26-RC1.  Thanks a lot!

Okay, that confirms it's the same issue as the emacs-devel thread.  I
expect to backport the fix in 26.2.  Marking the bug as fixed in v27 for
now.

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