refactor: move core optimizations to doom-start

These only benefit interactive sessions, and doom-start's responsibility
is to configure interactive sessions; it doesn't make sense to keep
these in core.
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Henrik Lissner 2022-09-12 00:42:15 +02:00
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@ -21,16 +21,140 @@
(put 'doom-first-buffer-hook 'permanent-local t)
;;
;;; Runtime/startup optimizations
;; A second, case-insensitive pass over `auto-mode-alist' is time wasted.
(setq auto-mode-case-fold nil)
;; Disable bidirectional text scanning for a modest performance boost. I've set
;; this to `nil' in the past, but the `bidi-display-reordering's docs say that
;; is an undefined state and suggest this to be just as good:
(setq-default bidi-display-reordering 'left-to-right
bidi-paragraph-direction 'left-to-right)
;; Disabling the BPA makes redisplay faster, but might produce incorrect display
;; reordering of bidirectional text with embedded parentheses and other bracket
;; characters whose 'paired-bracket' Unicode property is non-nil.
(setq bidi-inhibit-bpa t) ; Emacs 27+ only
;; Reduce rendering/line scan work for Emacs by not rendering cursors or regions
;; in non-focused windows.
(setq-default cursor-in-non-selected-windows nil)
(setq highlight-nonselected-windows nil)
;; More performant rapid scrolling over unfontified regions. May cause brief
;; spells of inaccurate syntax highlighting right after scrolling, which should
;; quickly self-correct.
(setq fast-but-imprecise-scrolling t)
;; Don't ping things that look like domain names.
(setq ffap-machine-p-known 'reject)
;; Resizing the Emacs frame can be a terribly expensive part of changing the
;; font. By inhibiting this, we halve startup times, particularly when we use
;; fonts that are larger than the system default (which would resize the frame).
(setq frame-inhibit-implied-resize t)
;; Emacs "updates" its ui more often than it needs to, so slow it down slightly
(setq idle-update-delay 1.0) ; default is 0.5
;; Font compacting can be terribly expensive, especially for rendering icon
;; fonts on Windows. Whether disabling it has a notable affect on Linux and Mac
;; hasn't been determined, but do it anyway, just in case. This increases memory
;; usage, however!
(setq inhibit-compacting-font-caches t)
;; PGTK builds only: this timeout adds latency to frame operations, like
;; `make-frame-invisible', which are frequently called without a guard because
;; it's inexpensive in non-PGTK builds. Lowering the timeout from the default
;; 0.1 should make childframes and packages that manipulate them (like `lsp-ui',
;; `company-box', and `posframe') feel much snappier. See emacs-lsp/lsp-ui#613.
(eval-when! (boundp 'pgtk-wait-for-event-timeout)
(setq pgtk-wait-for-event-timeout 0.001))
;; Increase how much is read from processes in a single chunk (default is 4kb).
;; This is further increased elsewhere, where needed (like our LSP module).
(setq read-process-output-max (* 64 1024)) ; 64kb
;; Introduced in Emacs HEAD (b2f8c9f), this inhibits fontification while
;; receiving input, which should help a little with scrolling performance.
(setq redisplay-skip-fontification-on-input t)
;; Performance on Windows is considerably worse than elsewhere. We'll need
;; everything we can get.
(eval-when! (boundp 'w32-get-true-file-attributes)
(setq w32-get-true-file-attributes nil ; decrease file IO workload
w32-pipe-read-delay 0 ; faster IPC
w32-pipe-buffer-size (* 64 1024))) ; read more at a time (was 4K)
;; Remove command line options that aren't relevant to our current OS; means
;; slightly less to process at startup.
(eval-when! (not IS-MAC) (setq command-line-ns-option-alist nil))
(eval-when! (not IS-LINUX) (setq command-line-x-option-alist nil))
;; HACK: `tty-run-terminal-initialization' is *tremendously* slow for some
;; reason; inexplicably doubling startup time for terminal Emacs. Keeping it
;; disabled will have nasty side-effects, so we simply delay it instead, and
;; invoke it later, at which point it runs quickly; how mysterious!
(unless (or (daemonp) init-file-debug)
(advice-add #'tty-run-terminal-initialization :override #'ignore)
(defun doom-init-tty-h ()
(advice-remove #'tty-run-terminal-initialization #'ignore)
(tty-run-terminal-initialization (selected-frame) nil t))
(add-hook 'window-setup-hook #'doom-init-tty-h))
;; Reduce *Message* noise at startup. An empty scratch buffer (or the dashboard)
;; is more than enough.
(setq inhibit-startup-screen t
inhibit-startup-echo-area-message user-login-name
inhibit-default-init t)
;; Shave seconds off startup time by starting the scratch buffer in
;; `fundamental-mode', rather than, say, `org-mode' or `text-mode', which pull
;; in a ton of packages. `doom/open-scratch-buffer' provides a better scratch
;; buffer anyway.
(setq initial-major-mode 'fundamental-mode
initial-scratch-message nil)
;; The GC introduces annoying pauses and stuttering into our Emacs experience,
;; so we use `gcmh' to stave off the GC while we're using Emacs, and provoke it
;; when it's idle. However, if the idle delay is too long, we run the risk of
;; runaway memory usage in busy sessions. If it's too low, then we may as well
;; not be using gcmh at all.
(setq gcmh-idle-delay 'auto ; default is 15s
gcmh-auto-idle-delay-factor 10
gcmh-high-cons-threshold (* 16 1024 1024)) ; 16mb
(add-hook 'doom-first-buffer-hook #'gcmh-mode)
;;
;;; Reasonable defaults for interactive sessions
;; Contrary to what many Emacs users have in their configs, you don't need more
;; than this to make UTF-8 the default coding system:
(set-language-environment "UTF-8")
;; ...but `set-language-environment' also sets `default-input-method', which is
;; a step too opinionated.
(setq default-input-method nil)
;; ...And the clipboard on Windows could be in a wider encoding (UTF-16), so
;; leave Emacs to its own devices.
(eval-when! IS-WINDOWS
(setq selection-coding-system 'utf-8))
;; Get rid of "For information about GNU Emacs..." message at startup. It's
;; redundant with our dashboard. However, in daemon sessions it says "Starting
;; Emacs daemon." instead, which is fine.
(unless (daemonp)
(advice-add #'display-startup-echo-area-message :override #'ignore))
;; GUIs are inconsistent across systems, will rarely match our active Emacs
;; theme, and impose their shortcut key paradigms suddenly. Let's just avoid
;; them altogether and have Emacs handle the prompting.
(setq use-dialog-box nil)
(when (bound-and-true-p tooltip-mode)
(tooltip-mode -1))
(when IS-LINUX
(eval-when! IS-LINUX
(setq x-gtk-use-system-tooltips nil))
;; Favor vertical splits over horizontal ones, since monitors are trending
@ -209,16 +333,6 @@ If RETURN-P, return the message as a string instead of displaying it."
(doom-run-hook-on 'doom-first-file-hook '(find-file-hook dired-initial-position-hook))
(doom-run-hook-on 'doom-first-input-hook '(pre-command-hook))
;; The GC introduces annoying pauses and stuttering into our Emacs experience,
;; so we use `gcmh' to stave off the GC while we're using Emacs, and provoke it
;; when it's idle. However, if the idle delay is too long, we run the risk of
;; runaway memory usage in busy sessions. If it's too low, then we may as well
;; not be using gcmh at all.
(setq gcmh-idle-delay 'auto ; default is 15s
gcmh-auto-idle-delay-factor 10
gcmh-high-cons-threshold (* 16 1024 1024)) ; 16mb
(add-hook 'doom-first-buffer-hook #'gcmh-mode)
;; There's a chance the user will later use package.el or straight in this
;; interactive session. If they do, make sure they're properly initialized
;; when they do.