bug#3252: 23.0.93; extremely slow to open file on windows network drive

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Chris Withers <chris@simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>
>>> Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 17:23:15 +0100
>>> From: Chris Withers <chris@simplistix.co.uk>
>>> CC: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 3252@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
>>>
>>>> How about the time to visit
>>>> it with "M-x find-file-literally RET"?
>>>
>>> No, this is instantaneous.
>>
>> Is "M-x find-file-literally RET" instantaneous when the file is on the
>> networked drive as well?
>
> Yes

Could it be that Emacs has the wrong default directory internally when
searching for some files? (Perhaps fonts?)