From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: formido Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to Reduce Emacs Load Time Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:03:14 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <77d92d7d-5207-4c7d-9409-66bd1cc7f016@n33g2000pri.googlegroups.com> References: <18aba2b0-4fc7-4588-b69f-d9f46b264b03@q26g2000prq.googlegroups.com> <87iqtirwet.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220136096 29825 80.91.229.12 (30 Aug 2008 22:41:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:41:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 31 00:42:29 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 1KZZ9I-0001CW-0B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:42:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49336 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZZ8J-0000NX-5v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:41:27 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!n33g2000pri.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.84.175.111 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1220133794 7728 127.0.0.1 (30 Aug 2008 22:03:14 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:03:14 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: n33g2000pri.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:161789 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:57130 Archived-At: On Aug 30, 3:05=A0pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) wrote: > formido 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. =A0On this machine, > emacs uptime is close to the system uptime. > > Keep emacs running, and use emacsclient. =A0So the boot time is amortized= . > > -- > __Pascal Bourguignon__ =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0http://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