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I try Emacs around once per year. The problem is it's so slow under OSX. It's much faster on my 2007 iMac running Linux than 2013 mbp. I even tried to run it un
by wangii 11y ago
I try Emacs around once per year. The problem is it's so slow under OSX. It's much faster on my 2007 iMac running Linux than 2013 mbp. I even tried to run it under X-Quartz but still performed poorly. What can I do?
- DigitalJack 11y agoTurn up the limit on garbage collection made a big difference for me. I'll post my .emacs.d on github and reply here. I'd only make a personal recommendation for emacs if you were doing Clojure development. Emacs+Cider+clj-refactor puts everything else to shame. Otherwise I'd just say use atom or sublime or whatever ide.
- DigitalJack 11y agorepository, as promised. https://github.com/scottstackelhouse/emacsd.git https://github.com/scottstackelhouse/emacsd.git
- pmoriarty 11y agoJust fyi, I also have huge issues with helm performance on my system. I tried the (setq gc-cons-threshold 100000000) from your init.el, and it didn't help at all. I'm running emacs 24.5.1 with a recent helm on a 2-core 64-bit Linux system with 8 gigs of RAM. Bringing up helm-mini takes about 7 seconds for me, as does getting a response from helm-apropos when I type a single character or even type control-g to close it. The rest of emacs runs fine. It's only helm that has anything remotely like this severe performance problem.
- DigitalJack 11y agoI've never used helm, so I don't have any experience there. I can't say that I've felt like I'm missing anything by not using it though. I'll give it a try on my system, maybe that will give some insight. -- update -- I installed a bunch of helm stuff, it didn't slow anything down for me. try doing a clean pull from my repo and then adding your helm packages and see if that helps. emacs starts up in about 1.2 seconds for me.