From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to Reduce Emacs Load Time Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:04:13 -0400 Message-ID: <48becc09$1@news.greennet.net> References: <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; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220380939 17237 80.91.229.12 (2 Sep 2008 18:42:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 18:42:19 +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 02 20:43:13 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 1Kaapu-0001Uj-UY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:42:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56020 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kaaov-0000k8-UK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:41:41 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <18aba2b0-4fc7-4588-b69f-d9f46b264b03@q26g2000prq.googlegroups.com> Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.91.197.52 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.91.197.52 Original-X-Trace: 3 Sep 2008 13:40:25 -0400, 192.91.197.52 Original-Lines: 9 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!feedme.ziplink.net!news.greennet.net!192.91.197.52 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:161850 X-Original-Bytes: 1113 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:57193 Archived-At: formido wrote: > What strategies could I use to get my load time down? My standard answer is to avoid starting emacs - run it as a server and connect clients to it. When you start it every few months, you won't care too much about the startup time. See gnuclient or emacsclient.