Re: Is this "save practice" (setting default font scale)?

[Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> (add-hook 'after-make-frame-functions
>>             (lambda (frame) 
>>               (set-face-attribute 'default nil :height 160)))
> [...]
>> I have refactored my init file and trying to push some things to
>> early-init to save some load time. What I have found is that above
>> little code adds ~200 ms to the init time; take or give.
>
> That's probably because of the extra work it imposes because it changes
> the default face after the first frame is created: Emacs has just
> created the frame (which involves realizing a bunch of faces) and you're
> telling it should go and redo some of that work with a new value of
> `default`.
Yes I know; that was reason why I started to refactor this into
early-init, so I can skip after-make-frame and double work.

> Setting your faces via Custom will avoid this double work because the
> new setting can be installed before creating the first frame, so the
> frame can be created immediately with the right faces.
I know.

I just didn't know where/how default face was set and
stored. Daniel pointed me to it already.