[kwhitefoot]

I launch Emacs when I log in just after booting. It restores its desktop (all the frames and buffers) and I never close it. Even though it has to restore a couple of dozen buffers and nearly that many frames it takes only a few seconds anyway.

As I am in Emacs anyway opening a file is very fast unless it's a really large file, multiple giga bytes.

Why would anyone close Emacs? Do you close the web browser too? What about X Windows?