emacs 23.3b startup over 11 seconds

Question

I've just installed emacs 23.3b (OSX Lion) using brew. The startup takes over 11 seconds (v 22.1 starts instantly). I've blanked out my .emacs and tried with various options such as "-Q" or "--no-init-file" "--no-site-file" but the startup time remains 11 seconds.

'emacs --help' runs instantly. Also upon loading, I see a message "loading vc-git ... done". Wondering if a lot of files are being loaded. This load time is irrespective of how many times i shut and rerun emacs.

I then installed emacs 23.3b from http://emacsformacosx.com/, that too takes the same time.

How can i speed up the load time, how to figure out where these 11 seconds are going ? (I need to use v23 for using 'evil').

Answer 1

The startup problem persisted with emacs24 also. Seems it was an OSX Lion problem related to /etc/hosts. See Mac OSX Lion DNS lookup order

The solution to this is have a

::1 mydomain.com

entry for every

127.0.0.1 mydomain.com

entry in your hosts file.