I'm still NOT satisfied with my Emacs performance after applying below tricks:

autoload packages

idle-load packages

compiling *.el to *.elc

After some research, I found I could make my Emacs 1000% fast in 1 minute.

Please note I'm talking about the general performance not just startup time.

The solution is really simple.

Since I'm a Linux guy and my computer got enough (24G) memory. I can place my setup into memory.

Step 1, insert below line into /etc/fstab and restart computer:

tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,size=8G 0 0

Step 2, run the script "emacs2ram":

#!/bin/sh if [ -z "$1" ];then echo "Usage:" echo " emacs2ram start" echo " emacs2ram restore" exit 1 fi if [ "$1" == "start" ];then backup=emacs.d-backup link=.emacs.d volatile=/tmp/.emacs.d-$USER IFS= set -efu cd ~/ if [ ! -r $volatile ]; then mkdir -m0700 $volatile fi # link -> volatie does not exist if [ "$(readlink $link)" != "$volatile" ]; then # backup project at first mv $link $backup # create the link ln -s $volatile $link fi if [ -e $link/.unpacked ]; then echo "Sync .emacs.d from memory to backup ..." rsync -avq --delete --exclude .unpacked ./$link/ ./$backup/ echo "DONE!" else echo "Sync .emacs.d from disk to memory ..." rsync -avq ./$backup/ ./$link/ touch $link/.unpacked echo "DONE!" fi else echo "Moving .emacs.d back to disk ..." backup=$2-backup link=$2 volatile=/tmp/$2-$USER cd ~/projs rm $link && mv $backup $link && rm -rf $volatile echo "DONE!" fi

That's all! Please enjoy Emacs as usual.

The original script is from ArchLinux Wiki. I learned this technique eight years ago. I'm just wondering why I need eight years to apply it?

BTW, I've also moved all my projects into memory, using similar scripts.

UPDATE 1: I also publicize my project-managing script at gist. It's almost same as emacs2ram.

UPDATE 2: Now I use vmtouch which is easier to use and more light weight. Run vmtouch -vt ~/.emacs.d to place the directory into memory.