Re: interactive feel of Emacs: the need for speed, and -Q [measure.el]

[Emanuel Berg]

Michael Welsh Duggan wrote:

> Once again, I couldn't say. Although the code quality
> of the elisp distributed with Emacs is fairly high, it
> is a large community project, and not everything is
> tested equally. Some packages are used by only a small
> number of people, while others are used by just about
> everybody. And different people have differing
> expectations when it comes to interactivity (and
> different computers which may be slower/faster).
> One thing I can say for certain is that the current
> set of active maintainers has done a very good job of
> tracking the bug reporting list and working hard at
> alleviating defects, once they are reported.

OK, thank, are there any general rules that makes sense?

- defuns that are loaded but not invoked do not slow
  Emacs down, as before and after execution, they are
  just a bunch of text

- hooks, advice, and scheduled stuff (with the idle
  timer) might slow things down, but shouldn't unless
  the stuff one puts there is expensive

- huge software systems that runs all the time and/or
  spawns their own processes (e.g., Gnus, ERC) could
  slow things down, but again, why would that be
  a problem unless the payload in particular is very
  expensive somewhere?

- it is likely that what slows down Emacs in general is
  ... ?

Re: binary search of the init file, this implies that
there is some specific one or two problem areas or
"villains", but I'm not sure there is. The reason
I think so is that -Q Emacs is, and has always been,
much faster _in general_, not in a specific situation.

Here are my requires:

(require 'ada-mode)
(require 'apropos)
(require 'bibtex)
(require 'cc-mode)
(require 'checkdoc)
(require 'cl-lib)
(require 'comint)
(require 'compile)
(require 'css-mode)
(require 'debug)
(require 'dired)
(require 'dired-x)
(require 'erc)
(require 'erc-button)
(require 'erc-fill)
(require 'erc-match)
(require 'erc-ring)
(require 'erc-stamp)
(require 'gnus)
(require 'gnus-art)
(require 'gnus-cite)
(require 'gnus-group)
(require 'gnus-msg)
(require 'gnus-score)
(require 'gnus-srvr)
(require 'gnus-start)
(require 'gnus-sum)
(require 'google-translate-core-ui)
(require 'help-mode)
(require 'ielm)
(require 'info)
(require 'ispell)
(require 'lpr)
(require 'man)
(require 'map)
(require 'message)
(require 'netrc)
(require 'nnmail)
(require 'nroff-mode)
(require 'package)
(require 'parse-time)
(require 'search-regexp-in-files)
(require 'seq)
(require 'sgml-mode)
(require 'shell)
(require 'slime)
(require 'slime-autoloads)
(require 'slime-presentations)
(require 'slime-repl)
(require 'smtpmail)
(require 'sort)
(require 'subr-x)
(require 'tex-mode)
(require 'thingatpt)
(require 'tls)
(require 'tramp)
(require 'w3m)
(require 'w3m-bookmark)
(require 'w3m-form)
(require 'w3m-search)
(require 'w3m-session)

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