Ken, Thanks for the quick reply. I agree with your assessment. I have even created a script that runs emacs in a pseudo-daemon mode under windows making this question obsolete once I have started emacs.
However, I am running emacs on a USB drive. If I change computers regularly, I have to start and stop emacs frequently. Therefore, a long startup time can be quite a drag. Dumping is supposed to fix that drag so that emacs starts in less than a second. See: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DumpingEmacs However, I’m having problems in this arena. Maybe I’ll have to recompile from source. Matt. From: Kenneth Goldman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 8:17 AM To: Fidler,Matt,FORT WORTH,R&D Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Speeding up Emacs I don't know if you have some special setup, but the generic answer to "how do I start up emacs faster" is Start it once a boot time (as a server) and leave it running forever. Use emacsclient or gnuclient to quickly attach to the running server. My emacs runs for months at a time, through suspends and hibernates, so I don't really care whether it takes one second or one minute to start. It's lost in the boot time. -- Ken Goldman [email protected] 914-784-7646 (863-7646) From: "Fidler,Matt,FORT WORTH,R&D" <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: 03/01/2011 12:53 AM Subject: [h-e-w] Speeding up Emacs Sent by: [email protected] ________________________________ Hi, I run emacs on a USB stick and am trying to figure out ways to speed up my startup. I have autoloaded many functions, and it still takes up to 30 to 60 seconds to load Emacs. I have tried “dumping” my emacs configuration and receive the following message with the dumped binary: The instruction at “0x01197720b” referenced memory at “0x01b8a220”. The memory could not be “written”. Click on OK to terminate the program. Click on CANCEL to debug the program. Am I doing something wrong? I currently run emacs.exe –batch –execute “(dump-emacs \”fast-emacs.exe\” \”emacs.exe\”)” and it produces the appropriate binary. Matt. ________________________________ This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited from using, copying or distributing the information in this e-mail or its attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you.
