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On the other hand one I don’t really care about init time at all and I think many users don’t care for the same reason. I start Emacs after a reboot (roughly on
by dan-robertson 8y ago
On the other hand one I don’t really care about init time at all and I think many users don’t care for the same reason. I start Emacs after a reboot (roughly once every three weeks) so even if it takes a minute to start, I would be optimising ~0.01% of my Emacs-using time. If it took ~60s and I reduced that to 2s then this optimisation would save less than 1.5hours over five years. But also that Emacs-starting time is spent reading email not waiting for Emacs so it wouldn’t bother me much if it took ~10min
- vemv 8y agoProbably there's two kind of devs (none being 'superior'): those who are paranoid about keeping things stateless, and those who don't. A clear example being restarting your computer. Sometimes I do it for no good reason other than knowing that state will be pristine when next time I boot it.