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Re:Emacs, naked by __david__ on Thursday January 23, 2014 @12:35PM (#7109634)
Using the Customize interface also helps. Variables that are customized go in a big list and don't get set individually, nor do they require their library to be loaded before they've been set.

A few years ago I went through my 10 years of accumulated .emacs cruft and switched everything I could to customize, and everything I couldn't to the technique you describe. I sped my emacs startup time from eight seconds down to one.

On top of that I switched to using emacsclient which makes startup instant.

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Re:Emacs, naked by dilap on Friday January 24, 2014 @12:37AM (#7113512)
Nice, I didn't know customize was faster. I'll have to try that.

emacsclient doesn't really work w/ my workflow -- when I want a new emacs, I really want a new emacs. Also worth noting you get something similar "for free" when using the gui emacs on MacOS, via open -a Emacs (I use an alias).

I wonder if you couldn't somehow snapshot the state of emacs and dump it for a truly fast startup?

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