[tejuis]

There are number of things you can do to improve your situation. Obviously you should not have packages loaded that you don't rely use. There are also ways to perform "lazy" loading, so that memory image is minimal until a package is really needed. I'm not using this myself.

My usage model is such that I only start one Emacs and use emacsclient to add files for editing from terminals. Emacs is running all the time (weeks/months).

Since Emacs is my primary interface to my Linux box, I give it some priviledges. In the .xsession I do:

vmtouch -t $HOME/.emacs.d; vmtouch -ld /usr/bin/emacs-gtk

Which effectively ensures that critical Emacs images and data is present in the memory all the time. Check out vmtouch utility. It might be useful for other purposes as well.

[the_duke]

My problem is really not the startup/loading time, but the regular stutters and long latency for input and commands.

I need my editor to "feel" really smooth and instant during editing. Emacs just never gives me that experience.

I think many long-time Emacs (and Jetbrains IDEs, for that matter) users just don't notice how laggy it is because they are so used to it, or are not very latency sensitive.

[LanternLight83]

As a vim user who's transitioned to Emacs with evil, response latency just feels so much better in vim, and although I love and use the daemon-client tip, it misses that point.