Advanced techniques for reducing Emacs startup time

Post by liyuankui » Sat, May 21, 2022, 5:49 AM UTC

Post by _pvxk » Sat, May 21, 2022, 1:57 PM UTC

morelisp wrote: post #37

unhammer wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I no longer let use-package install things. I use the same init on different computers, so sometimes I would have to wait for use-package to install things on startup and sometimes melpa would be down or some package would be a newer version and require new deps and use-package doesn't handle such situations. It's very little gain for a lot of hassle. Instead I just check all of emacs.d/elpa into the same git repo. T…

I tried this for a while but got sick of dealing with byte compilation issues. Different versions of Emacs on different systems, occasional mtime skew especially if switching branches but sometimes I think just an unlucky clock tick.