Re:Making My Emacs Start Faster
by cmrdporcupine on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @10:51AM
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I have been using Emacs semi-casually since 1993, when I got into it because it had a really good [Lambda]MOO client. I have always hated Vi and like the C++ mode in Emacs, so when I'm on a shell-only or editing something that the IntelliJ suite doesn't do, I use Emacs.
It was slow to load back then on an early 90s HP/UX workstation. And it's slow to load now on a modern quad core i7 machine with 16 gigs of RAM and an SSD drive.
How this can be baffles me. I don't know what they're doing wrong, but it continues to grow and grow.
Re:Making My Emacs Start Faster
by Semiapies on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @01:35PM
(#10705722)
How slow is "slow", for you? When my init was at its most bloated, it only took about ten seconds. I took out some things I wasn't using and got it down to similar timings to the article. (No SSD on this box, though.)
Re:Making My Emacs Start Faster
by pyre on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @02:33PM
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It actually loaded pretty fast for me on a less beefy system when I was using it. Even with SpaceMacs (which was a lot slower than my custom .emacs) loaded in 6 ~ 7 seconds.
It was slow to load back then on an early 90s HP/UX workstation. And it's slow to load now on a modern quad core i7 machine with 16 gigs of RAM and an SSD drive.
How this can be baffles me. I don't know what they're doing wrong, but it continues to grow and grow.