Could you decrease the loading timeof emacs.d

[purcell]

Could you decrease the loading timeof emacs.d

[purcell]

Here's another thought; you could accelerate the start-up by byte-compiling the init-*.el files, together with any .el files under ~/.emacs.d/site-lisp. (I do the latter, but not the former.) When you change files, you can then run M-x byte-recompile-directory RET ~/.emacs.d RET.

I find it inconvenient to keep the init-*.el files byte-compiled because I change them often, but compiling the contents of ~/.emacs.d/site-lisp provides a very worthwhile speed benefit.

-Steve

[purcell]

I think there's not much more that can be autoloaded, and I'm always looking for opportunities to do so, so I'll close this issue for now. haskell-site-file is itself an autoloads file, BTW.

[purcell]

I should add that I personally find up to 10 seconds acceptable, since Emacs shouldn't be constantly closed/reopened anyway. :-)

BTW: since this configuration reopens files from the previous session together with any configuration for the modes those files require, that often explains some of the start-up time. It would be possible to disable the re-opening of previous files if that's an issue for you.

[redguardtoo]

C-u 0 M-x byte-recompile-directory RET ~/.emacs.d/site-lisp RET looks good

[purcell]

Ah, neat -- didn't know the initial compilation could be forced that way too.