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Re: Aquamacs 2.0 Released

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Post by Maro » Mon, May 10, 2010, 9:23 PM UTC

Roughly 5 years ago I was an Emacs user. I remember I got my first job out of college at a Windows development shop, and I tried to use Emacs for the first couple of weeks, before I had to give in and use Visual Studio like everyone else around me. Being able to actually compile the project from the Project file was kind of a must-have =)

Nowadays I can't really think of a good use for Emacs. I use XCode for C++, Textmate for Python (and some old PHP and Java), MacTex for writing articles...

But man I'd love to use Emacs again and whip out some Elisp!

Re: Aquamacs 2.0 Released

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Post by GeoffWozniak » Mon, May 10, 2010, 11:24 PM UTC

weeksie wrote: post #4

Perhaps it's tabbar-mode but for some reason I find Aquamacs to be crazy-slow when compared to the vanilla Emacs.app. I realise there's a lot of extras that are included in Aquamacs but the difference is just insane. It's a shame though because I love the default setup (after I've turned off all of their modifier key changes).

Same here. It has consistently gotten slower since the 0.9+ days. My simple test involves loading up Slime, opening a Lisp source file of moderate size and holding down C-n. The recent releases of Aquamacs consistently spikes at 25-50% CPU usage on my MBP. The lag is noticeable while editing.

Re: Aquamacs 2.0 Released

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Post by davidswelt » Wed, May 12, 2010, 2:14 AM UTC

Folks, if you'd like to try out a 64-bit, Intel-only optimized build of Aquamacs 2.0, please e-mail me at david.reitter@gmail. At least on my system this build is noticeably faster.