emacs slow startup time
Before tuning, it worth of checking Emacs startup time itself. Firstly you would need to create a file, let’s call it emacs-startup-time.el and put follow content into it: (add-hook 'emacs-startup-hook (lambda () (message "*** Emacs loaded in %s with %d garbage collections." (format "%.2f seconds" (float-time (time-subtract after-init-time before-init-time))) gcs-done))) then run it: emacs -q -l emacs-startup-time.el In status line you should see time that was needed to load Emacs.