Speed now & then (Space and time?)

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 10:07:27PM -0500, Mark Linimon via cctalk wrote: It starts up within half a second or so on my development box, even though my .emacs pulls in all sorts of weird and wonderful packages. On my remote servers, it can take a few seconds if the box is overloaded, but is otherwise instant. A lot of traditional software has *not* encountered the kind of bloat needed to counteract Moore's Law, and so performs beautifully. What *is* bloating is Windows software -- mercifully I don't run Windows -- half-jobbed ports of said Windows software to other platforms (Firefox, mainly), and web-based stuff. The latter includes various phoned-it-in apps which are basically written in Javascript and embed an invisible web browser, which includes Slack, Spotify, and a few other bits and pieces. The obvious answer is to not use that bloated crapware and find something else that does the same job.