From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Speeding up Emacs load time Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 22:13:21 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87ehayntzy.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> References: <87r4ezdiiy.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <87r4ez92ry.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <87txjv7gen.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <26142f86-cacf-40a9-a101-fc8a37818347@googlegroups.com> <8738re4z9v.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <114180ff-1a9a-433a-8420-a53c1676735b@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374005756 5490 80.91.229.3 (16 Jul 2013 20:15:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 20:15:56 +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 Jul 16 22:15:58 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UzBfC-0008Sk-LU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 22:15:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58826 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UzBfC-00009a-7H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 16:15:58 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 52 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SWN/nubmpQxYKwY7hPy4YA.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:2JGcHv5eM5UOeXbSXGOGg5Nw7/o= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:199897 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92163 Archived-At: Rustom Mody writes: >> Man, those C and Perl days must have been exciting! Still, I'm >> not giving up on acquiring the big picture - just keep on >> digging, every day... > > and then > >> I'm going to customize *everything* down to the last >> detail. Emacs, the shell, the mail client, the web browser, >> even the kernel process scheduler, when I get there! That's the >> whole point with everything I do with computing. This is how I >> communicate with technology - because that's who I am. > > are not exactly compatible. > > When I spend my time on perfecting the details, I tend to miss > out the big picture. That's you, not me. I've spent 3-4 years getting a CS degree. I'm done drawing UML diagrams, writing pseudo-code, etc. While I did that, I spent as much time "digging" (and no time sleeping). While both (theory and digging) were helpful, and in retrospect, it's different to say what gave what - did Linear Algebra help for Lisp? - I'm done with theory, but I'll *never* be done digging. > You can take it from me -- learnt by hard painful experience -- > that perfectionism is not a virtue but a disease. IOW > Jambunathan's advice is very good advice. I don't believe that. But I've heard that before, many times. I think there might be some truth to it. Still, those people have always been - in lack of a better word - "normal". They are not warriors, because they never had to be. And normal people tend only to understand other people that are normal. It is like seeing a punch in boxing that you never saw before - do you know how it looks? - it is *invisible*! Only the second time you see someone throw it, you can (barely) make it out. > And especially when I hear the tone of voice in this If you read my reply perhaps you understand my reaction. > I am reminded of Erik Naggum. > [Run a search and ask how far you want to go that-a-way] OK. -- Emanuel Berg - programmer (hire me! CV below) computer projects: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 internet activity: http://home.student.uu.se/embe8573