Re: Speeding up Emacs load time

[david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd)]

david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes:

> Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:
>
>>
>> Timings from my system after much optimization.
>>
>>   $ time emacs -f kill-emacs
>>   real    0m0.157s
>>   user    0m0.140s
>>   sys     0m0.012s
>>   $ time emacs -q -f kill-emacs
>>   real    0m0.137s
>>   user    0m0.116s
>>   sys     0m0.016s
>>   $ time emacs -Q -f kill-emacs
>>   real    0m0.051s
>>   user    0m0.028s
>>   sys     0m0.020s
>>
>> Bob
>
>
> Here's mine at present.  I'll have to work at it and see if I can approach
> your times...
>
>
> $ time emacs -f kill-emacs
>
> real    0m23.400s
> user    0m7.199s
> sys     0m9.500s
>
> $ time emacs -q -f kill-emacs
>
> real    0m1.710s
> user    0m1.170s
> sys     0m0.249s
>
> $ time emacs -Q -f kill-emacs
>
> real    0m1.680s
> user    0m1.201s
> sys     0m0.217s


After some minor tweaking, I got it down to

real    0m11.623s
user    0m5.439s
sys     0m4.451s


I can live with that for a while.   Getting it any faster would take a lot of
tweaking that I don't have time for right now.

Thanks for the thread.  11 seconds is much better than 24!