From: formido <formido@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to Reduce Emacs Load Time
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:03:14 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <77d92d7d-5207-4c7d-9409-66bd1cc7f016@n33g2000pri.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87iqtirwet.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com
On Aug 30, 3:05 pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
wrote:
> formido <form...@gmail.com> writes:
> > 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?
>
> Ah, also even it emacs took one hour to load, it woudn't matter much,
> because you should leave your emacs process running. On this machine,
> emacs uptime is close to the system uptime.
>
> Keep emacs running, and use emacsclient. So the boot time is amortized.
>
> --
> __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
> Until real software engineering is developed, the next best practice
> is to develop with a dynamic system that has extreme late binding in
> all aspects. The first system to really do this in an important way
> is Lisp. -- Alan Kay
That's a good point. I guess my problems are exacerbated at the moment
because I just took on Emacs a few weeks ago, so I'm constantly trying
out new packages and testing that my startup process is still working.
Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-30 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-30 21:11 How to Reduce Emacs Load Time formido
2008-08-30 22:00 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-08-31 11:26 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.18041.1220182012.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-31 17:39 ` formido
2008-08-31 22:24 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-08-31 17:50 ` formido
2008-09-08 12:38 ` Eric Ludlam
2008-08-30 22:05 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-08-30 22:03 ` formido [this message]
2008-08-31 11:59 ` Joost Diepenmaat
2008-08-31 9:39 ` Ivan Kanis
2008-08-31 12:35 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.18043.1220186144.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-31 20:01 ` Chetan
2008-08-31 11:39 ` David
[not found] ` <mailman.18042.1220182790.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-31 17:42 ` formido
2008-08-31 19:10 ` David
2008-08-31 22:10 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-08-31 22:20 ` David
[not found] ` <mailman.18077.1220220611.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-31 22:36 ` formido
2008-09-02 18:04 ` Ken Goldman
2008-09-03 13:06 ` rustom
2008-09-03 17:06 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2008-09-04 11:01 ` rustom
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