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light versions of emacs and getting it to start faster
From: |
GI |
Subject: |
light versions of emacs and getting it to start faster |
Date: |
Wed, 18 Sep 2002 22:55:48 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.3.99i |
Hi,
I'm interested in reducing the binary size of emacs, and getting it to
start/load faster.
Reason:
My current system (Redhat 7.2 on an i686) has an old version of emacs. My
system administrator has not yet upgraded (and knowing him, it'll be a while
...). So I compiled my own version and have it somewhere in my homedirectory
(on the network). I have to load up emacs multiple times in one session (I use
it as my default editor in my mailreader - Mutt), and a large binary size
stored remotely is painfully slow.
What I've done so far:
I compiled it (emacs 21.2) without X support. It reduced the binary size from
7MB to about 5. I can't get any lower than that.
I'm sure one can make the binary a lot smaller since the binary distributed by
Redhat 7.3 is only about 4MB (and that has X support too!)
Also, it would be nice if emacs never loaded some pointless lisp files to begin
with (like I never use the menu bar mode when i'm writiing emails). So if
anyone knows how to strip down the lisp files emacs loads on startup to a bare
minimum, that would also be helpful. But I guess what would give me most
performace is killing the binary size!
Thanks,
Gautam
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