From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to build a smaller emacs Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:10:01 -0000 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1190711401.671039.64400@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com> References: <1190710856.061102.35940@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190713350 10464 80.91.229.12 (25 Sep 2007 09:42:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:42:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 25 11:42:26 2007 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 1Ia6vw-0003Dt-Uy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:42:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ia6vt-0000yz-SE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:42:21 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.67.23.108 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1190711401 13564 127.0.0.1 (25 Sep 2007 09:10:01 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:10:01 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1190710856.061102.35940@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com; posting-host=83.67.23.108; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152327 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:47834 Archived-At: On 25 Sep, 10:00, litchie wrote: > Hi, All > > I want to build a smaller emacs, I mean the executable emacs.exe. > Currently it is around 27M.. > > I hope to reduce it to a smaller size so as to hope it can start > faster. Are you sure that it is the Emacs executable that is loading slowly, and not things loaded from your .emacs? How quickly does emacs start when you start it as "emacs -Q" from the command line?