From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: litchie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to build a smaller emacs Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:33:02 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1190712782.176704.157030@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> References: <1190710856.061102.35940@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> <1190711401.671039.64400@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190725933 22148 80.91.229.12 (25 Sep 2007 13:12:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:12:13 +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 15:12:08 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 1IaACi-0006Bn-7j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:11:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IaACf-0006mK-7T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:11:53 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.46.92.18 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1190712782 18429 127.0.0.1 (25 Sep 2007 09:33:02 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:33:02 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1190711401.671039.64400@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 JPN-PRXY-08 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=207.46.92.18; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152330 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:10:15 -0400 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:47842 Archived-At: On Sep 25, 5:10 pm, Jason Rumney wrote: > 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? Yes, it is fast now, since my .emacs is almost empty, not loading any other packages. However, I would be very glad if it can be as fast as notepad :) I searched the web, but no result. Looks that people do not care about this problem.