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What are these recommended optimizations?

• kovrik 8y ago
  As far as I know, things like: changing gc-cons-threshold, setting file-name-handler-alist to nil, adjusting some jit-lock-* values. And using deferred package loading.
• yankcrime 8y ago
  This section from the Doom Emacs distribution's FAQ covers some of the recommendations: https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs/wiki/FAQ#how-is-dooms-startup-so-fast https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs/wiki/FAQ#how-is-dooms...
• dan-robertson 8y ago
  The extreme version is to reproduce a step from building Emacs where you produce a binary with the libraries you want already loaded into memory. This is like making a lisp-image except the image also includes a big C text editor
  • vemv 8y ago
    This sounds pretty neat (and something a CI server could routinely do) - has it been done in practice?
    • dan-robertson 8y ago
      Doing this requires various security features that operating systems have gained since the 1980s to be turned off so it’s not super advisable if you can avoid it