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Spacemacs with a mostly standard config has similar load times as VSCode (2-3 seconds)...
by kungtotte 8y ago
Spacemacs with a mostly standard config has similar load times as VSCode (2-3 seconds)...
- village-idiot 8y agoI’ve never understood the load time argument about IDEs, I probably restart my IDE whenever I do os upgrades every other week or so. This is true when I use IntelliJ, Emacs, or VS Code. Any of these could take 30s or longer to start for all I care. The issue with VS Code is that it’s more memory hungry than google chrome. More than once I’ve caught it using half a gig of memory, with various instances of flow using up to a gig on top of that.
- kungtotte 8y agoI prefer using one editor for every task. This means both coding and quick config edits or jotting down notes. So while I often keep an instance up for hours, I also open and close it frequently enough that load time is enough of an issue.
- village-idiot 8y agoI personally do not use one editor for everything. To each their own. Emacsclient would solve this issue for you though.
- kungtotte 8y agoVim solves this issue for me, since it loads nearly instantaneously even loaded down with plugins.
- vvillena 8y agoThere's nothing standard about Spacemacs. It's a tremendously useful premade config, but it's not indicative of the performance of the Emacs environment.
- kungtotte 8y agoI know, but featurewise it's on par with VSCode with things like git integration and auto-suggestion etc. so I feel like it's a fair comparison. Do you think vanilla Emacs with the same amount of packages would be much faster (without getting into tricks like a daemon)?