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by techbro92 844 days ago
I highly recommend compiling emacs from source with the option for native lisp compilation enabled. Emacs is way faster when you do this.
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Everyone that recommends nativecomp as a way to fix perceived Emacs slowness in this topic is basically parroting something that's completely and utterly wrong. Native compilation should make no difference in perceived "slowness" for the vast majority of real-world use cases.
I'm curious why you think that? Certainly "use your faster computer" is more impactful, but I definitely feel things are a bit faster with native enabled.