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Every time I try Emacs I get annoyed by it's slowness and go back to vim and VS Code. This might entice me to build it and try out my Emacs Doom setup again.

nXqd 6y ago
hell yeah me too, this will make it get back to Emacs again :D
tejuis 6y ago
There are number of things you can do to improve your situation. Obviously you should not have packages loaded that you don't rely use. There are also ways to perform "lazy" loading, so that memory image is minimal until a package is really needed. I'm not using this myself. My usage model is such that I only start one Emacs and use emacsclient to add files for editing from terminals. Emacs is running all the time (weeks/months). Since Emacs is my primary interface to my Linux box, I give it some priviledges. In the .xsession I do: vmtouch -t $HOME/.emacs.d; vmtouch -ld /usr/bin/emacs-gtk Which effectively ensures that critical Emacs images and data is present in the memory all the time. Check out vmtouch utility. It might be useful for other purposes as well.
- the_duke 6y ago
  My problem is really not the startup/loading time, but the regular stutters and long latency for input and commands. I need my editor to "feel" really smooth and instant during editing. Emacs just never gives me that experience. I think many long-time Emacs (and Jetbrains IDEs, for that matter) users just don't notice how laggy it is because they are so used to it, or are not very latency sensitive.
  - LanternLight83 6y ago
    As a vim user who's transitioned to Emacs with evil, response latency just feels so much better in vim, and although I love and use the daemon-client tip, it misses that point.
lasagnaphil 6y ago
It’s quite strange that the reputation for Emacs being slow hasn’t changed in decades even though hardware has advanced significantly...
- ByteJockey 6y ago
  Wirth's law: Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.
- stjohnswarts 6y ago
  Probably because it's relative. Emacs being single-threaded hurts it the most I think.
stjohnswarts 6y ago
Try doom emacs and see what you think. I don't use it, I prefer pretty GUIs (I don't care what the HN crowd thinks of me and my love of graphics) but sometimes I'm in a terminal and DOOM emacs works great.

nXqd 6y ago

hell yeah me too, this will make it get back to Emacs again :D

tejuis 6y ago

There are number of things you can do to improve your situation. Obviously you should not have packages loaded that you don't rely use. There are also ways to perform "lazy" loading, so that memory image is minimal until a package is really needed. I'm not using this myself. My usage model is such that I only start one Emacs and use emacsclient to add files for editing from terminals. Emacs is running all the time (weeks/months). Since Emacs is my primary interface to my Linux box, I give it some priviledges. In the .xsession I do: vmtouch -t $HOME/.emacs.d; vmtouch -ld /usr/bin/emacs-gtk Which effectively ensures that critical Emacs images and data is present in the memory all the time. Check out vmtouch utility. It might be useful for other purposes as well.

the_duke 6y ago
My problem is really not the startup/loading time, but the regular stutters and long latency for input and commands. I need my editor to "feel" really smooth and instant during editing. Emacs just never gives me that experience. I think many long-time Emacs (and Jetbrains IDEs, for that matter) users just don't notice how laggy it is because they are so used to it, or are not very latency sensitive.
- LanternLight83 6y ago
  As a vim user who's transitioned to Emacs with evil, response latency just feels so much better in vim, and although I love and use the daemon-client tip, it misses that point.

lasagnaphil 6y ago

It’s quite strange that the reputation for Emacs being slow hasn’t changed in decades even though hardware has advanced significantly...

ByteJockey 6y ago
Wirth's law: Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.
stjohnswarts 6y ago
Probably because it's relative. Emacs being single-threaded hurts it the most I think.

stjohnswarts 6y ago

Try doom emacs and see what you think. I don't use it, I prefer pretty GUIs (I don't care what the HN crowd thinks of me and my love of graphics) but sometimes I'm in a terminal and DOOM emacs works great.