[slime-devel] Question about decoupling load-server and start-server in slime-init-command

[Juan M. Bello Rivas]

Hi,

I have a slow system where launching slime (current CVS version) takes
several seconds.  Wishing to cut down the initialization time, I
dumped a sbcl core with swank preloaded but slime didn't start faster
because swank was being reloaded.  To avoid this, I modified
slime-init-command and now slime starts lightning fast.

There's a comment before slime-init-command saying:

;; XXX load-server & start-server used to be separated. maybe that was  better.

Why were the two functionalities merged?  I definitely think it was
better.  Perhaps I missed an obvious way to achieve the same goal?

Thanks,

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Juan M. Bello Rivas                           http://superadditive.com