Subject: bug#5749: 24.0.50; Gomoku startup latency

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:51:24 -0400

Stephen Berman wrote:

> 1. Let ~/.emacs consist of this sexp:
> (setq initial-frame-alist '((fullscreen . fullheight)))
> 2. Start Emacs with the above init file.
> 3. M-x gomoku
> => There is a noticeable delay loading the game -- on my system 3-4
> seconds.

This is interesting. Emacs 23.1 is almost instantaneous, but 23.1.94
is very slow, and also starts using a huge amount of memory (1GB+ for me).
Loading gomoku.el from 23.1 in 23.1.94 makes no difference.

In 23.1.94, the values of cons-cells-consed and intervals-consed go up
enormously (by ~ 70 million and 10 million) after running `gomoku'.

> In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.6)
>  of 2010-03-19 on escher