Re: How to Reduce Emacs Load Time

[formido <formido@gmail.com>]

On Aug 31, 4:39 am, David <de...@arcor.de> wrote:
> First, you should identify what parts of your .emacs take so long. You
> can do this e.g. by starting emacs with "emacs -q", set up your
> load-path, and then evaluate
>
> (benchmark-run
>   (require 'package))

Thanks very much for that. In this case, by inspection I can tell
CEDET is a major culprit.

> Essentially, yes. But maybe you "require" too much. My emacs startup
> time is ~1sec, although I include large third party packages like CEDET
> and Gnus. For example, for setting up Gnus, you should only require
> 'gnus-load in your .emacs, which contains the proper autoloads. This
> takes about 0.03 seconds on my machine.

Mind telling me how you load CEDET? I just used instruction they gave--
you can see above what my *messages* looks like at init.

> -David