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It takes a few seconds to boot up, even on my Ryzen 7 machine with 8 cores à 4GHz and 16GB RAM. Booting up is normally not done so often, but also doing other
by kolme 5y ago
It takes a few seconds to boot up, even on my Ryzen 7 machine with 8 cores à 4GHz and 16GB RAM.
Booting up is normally not done so often, but also doing other stuff takes way too long for my taste (over the perceivable 300ms threshold).
> Emacs ran on hardware from the 1980’s. How can it be too slow on modern hardware?
Since then they've added millions of lines of ELisp code. The comparison is moot.
Also we are talking here about Emacs "distributions" (Spacemacs, Doom Emacs) which come with a lot of code, and ELisp is not particularly fast.
- erikbye 5y agoVanilla Emacs startup time is approx. 1 second. Even with a few packages added, Emacs is ready for use in less time than VSCode.
- kubanczyk 5y ago> Also we are talking here about Emacs "distributions" (Spacemacs, Doom Emacs) which come with a lot of code, and ELisp is not particularly fast. I've just tried Doom Emacs on 27.1, with the default stuff plus some minor additions, and it starts within 900 ms on my laptop (Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9850H CPU @ 2.60GHz).