I care about the time it takes to start emacs. I bounce around a lot and edit many files. I cannot use emacsclient due to some limitations in my workflow and machine.
- In the terminal
emacs -nw -Q
M-x emacs-init-time returns0.0 seconds
- In the GUI
emacs -Q
M-x emacs-init-time returns0.8 seconds
What is the reason for this discrepancy? Can it be corrected?
emacs 24.4.1
Arch Linux
emacs -Q -nw --eval '(kill-emacs)'
andemacs -Q --eval '(kill-emacs)'
give me 0.04s and 0.35s, a less extreme time. I'd put my money on the creation of the graphical frame and initialization of fonts.emacs -Q --eval '(kill-emacs)'
incantation takes ~1s to run.