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Re:TimL: Clojure-like Lisp dialect that runs on and compiles... by maleldil on Saturday May 27, 2023 @02:21PM (#36096943)
> slow

There's quite a good chance that even the most complicated Neovim setup is faster than Emacs. Emacs lisp is notoriously slow, while Neovim uses LuaJIT, which is _very_ fast.

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Re:TimL: Clojure-like Lisp dialect that runs on and compiles... by bitwize on Saturday May 27, 2023 @04:45PM (#36098123)
Emacs Lisp had native-comp now.
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Re:TimL: Clojure-like Lisp dialect that runs on and compiles... by nequo on Saturday May 27, 2023 @04:49PM (#36098157)
How do Neovim and Emacs startup times compare when using Emacs 28’s native compilation of elisp?

Obviously hard to compare because they don’t run the same packages but would still be interesting to see ballpark figures of setups with roughly equivalent functionality.

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Re:TimL: Clojure-like Lisp dialect that runs on and compiles... by hetman on Saturday May 27, 2023 @08:22PM (#36099867)
Are these startup times even significant enough to actually be noticeable anyway?
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Re:TimL: Clojure-like Lisp dialect that runs on and compiles... by bjoli on Sunday May 28, 2023 @02:12AM (#36101618)
If people are bothered by Emacs startup times they usually just use Emacs Daemon. I let systemd start it for me at boop, for example.
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Re:TimL: Clojure-like Lisp dialect that runs on and compiles... by bjoli on Sunday May 28, 2023 @02:10AM (#36101610)
Not favourably to Emacs.
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Re:TimL: Clojure-like Lisp dialect that runs on and compiles... by chlorion on Saturday May 27, 2023 @11:15PM (#36100839)
Emacs now has an optimizing native code emitting compiler for elisp. It's definitely not slow, but not as fast a luajit.

Not sure why performance matters in this case anyways though.

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