I “live in Emacs”, like most of us (atleast at work). It has been getting slower release on release, async support doesn’t seem to have been picked up by most packages and native-comp has made it more brittle.

Over this time, we moved from running the OS on hardware to running in VMs, so fractional slowdown was expected. But what I have is a few X slower Emacs. I had never seen Emacs take a minute to indent a few thousand lines, for example. Maybe some modes have slower code.

  • oantolin
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    16 days ago

    There’s probably something with with your installation or configuration. For me Emacs has always felt fast and has been getting faster, the biggest jump being of course the native compiler.