Re: How to Reduce Emacs Load Time

[pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)]

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.

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