From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Fast emacs? Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 07:29:33 -0400 Message-ID: <4A11469D.8040802@mousecar.com> References: <87ws8fflyl.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> <4A11406D.6090602@pobox.com> Reply-To: gebser@mousecar.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1242646256 30798 80.91.229.12 (18 May 2009 11:30:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 11:30:56 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs help Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 18 13:30:49 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M613P-0001cg-Jl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 May 2009 13:30:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58355 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M613O-0001HX-QV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 May 2009 07:30:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M612T-00015N-Sw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 May 2009 07:29:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M612S-00013S-4O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 May 2009 07:29:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49185 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M612R-00013H-W9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 May 2009 07:29:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.perfora.net ([74.208.4.195]:62177) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M612R-00075B-JB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 May 2009 07:29:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.0.26] (dsl093-011-017.cle1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.11.17]) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKpCa-1M612N2eGq-000cge; Mon, 18 May 2009 07:29:45 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070326) In-Reply-To: <4A11406D.6090602@pobox.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 OpenPGP: id=5AD091E7 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18hXtwvyYrvP7RgavLqSowbywlpCc1KsYoAEOV uh1Ed3cyE7qtA5IYOvy6uQpuOw0GDAkCSTYaKH5b3ZcS0BmmIQ 1mAEzHoi2gptzF/gf7RintlPaW2aCDD X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:64534 Archived-At: >>> For ***years*** I've been looking for a solution to this problem, >>> and I'm truly amazed that I have yet to find it: how to get a >>> fast-starting version of emacs. The problem is that I have a big >>> .emacs file and a big Emacs desktop, which means that my Emacs takes >>> forever to start. This is fine most of the time, but occasionally >>> I want a fast-starting emacs session (e.g. when I run "sudo emacs" >>> to edit a superuser-owned config file), and it's infuriating to >>> wait for emacs to go through a lengthy and useless song-and-dance... >>> >>> .... It should speed things up quite a bit to byte compile a major part of your ~/.emacs as another file which is then loaded on start-up.