From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: formido Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How to Reduce Emacs Load Time Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:11:06 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <18aba2b0-4fc7-4588-b69f-d9f46b264b03@q26g2000prq.googlegroups.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 1220132445 21547 80.91.229.12 (30 Aug 2008 21:40:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:40:45 +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 23:41:40 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 1KZYCR-0004vP-1U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:41:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37787 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZYBS-0001gZ-5L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:40:38 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!q26g2000prq.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 9 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.84.175.111 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1220130667 30681 127.0.0.1 (30 Aug 2008 21:11:07 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:11:07 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q26g2000prq.googlegroups.com; posting-host=75.84.175.111; posting-account=ivEBWwoAAAAvVw947tp2U-HBcoAwWEMu User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:161784 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:57126 Archived-At: 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?