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 00:00:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r686rwmj.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?
Right.
- compile ~/.emacs ; this is not a good idea, because the gain is
minimal, and you have to remember compiling it everytime you update
~/.emacs.
- don't load what you don't need. Remove cruft from your ~/.emacs.
- don't load what you need, yet. This means, instead of loading or
requiring the packages you may need, define autoloading functions.
Good packages will do that for you, when you require them, they load
only a file which defines autoloading functions, so you spend time
loading the package only when you try to run these functions.
- load everything, in advance. And save a new emacs image, then boot
that emacs image instead of the empty standard one. It's not as
easy to do in emacs than in Common Lisp implementations, but it's
possible.
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
You're always typing.
Well, let's see you ignore my
sitting on your hands.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-30 22:00 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 [this message]
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
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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