From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to Reduce Emacs Load Time Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:05:30 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87iqtirwet.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> References: <18aba2b0-4fc7-4588-b69f-d9f46b264b03@q26g2000prq.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220132601 21998 80.91.229.12 (30 Aug 2008 21:43:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:43:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 30 23:44:15 2008 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 1KZYDr-0005Wf-5Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:43:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38614 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZYCs-0002yk-IP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:42:06 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed2-b.proxad.net!nnrp6-1.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/bsTGYR5V4T4boFSgf5bhSU5p8k= Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Aug 2008 23:32:23 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.182.134.169 Original-X-Trace: 1220131943 news-3.free.fr 12006 88.182.134.169:32945 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:161786 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:57128 Archived-At: formido writes: > Hello there, > > Emacs takes like 10 seconds to load. It's a lot faster if I don't load > all my packages. What strategies could I use to get my load time down? > Emacs itself is made up of tons of elisp files and it doesn't take > forever to load, so I don't see why I should be forced to endure long > load times just because I add third party packages. If I do, 'require > package', I'm at the mercy of the package maker's initialization > process, right? Ah, also even it emacs took one hour to load, it woudn't matter much, because you should leave your emacs process running. On this machine, emacs uptime is close to the system uptime. Keep emacs running, and use emacsclient. So the boot time is amortized. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ Until real software engineering is developed, the next best practice is to develop with a dynamic system that has extreme late binding in all aspects. The first system to really do this in an important way is Lisp. -- Alan Kay