From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to Reduce Emacs Load Time
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:05:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iqtirwet.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 18aba2b0-4fc7-4588-b69f-d9f46b264b03@q26g2000prq.googlegroups.com
formido <formido@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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-30 22:05 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 [this message]
2008-08-30 22:03 ` formido
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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