Pascal J. Bourguignon [2013-07-31 00:40:13 +02:00] wrote:

> And when I say quick, I mean quick: almost 1/4 the boot time of vim:
>
> [pjb@kuiper :0.0 ~]$ time echo :q |vim
> real    0m2.027s

> [pjb@kuiper :0.0 ~]$ time emacs -q -nw -e 'kill-emacs'
> real    0m0.573s

You should probably drop caches before running those tests.

    $ sync; sudo sh -c 'echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches'