speed up emacs startup by delaying setting gc after startup. Update

logs on emacs startup time

Author: sacredyak

init.el

@@ -1,19 +1,26 @@
+(setq start-time (current-time))
+
+;; assign high memory to reduce gc during load
 (setq gc-cons-threshold (* 50 1000 1000))
 
 (add-hook 'after-init-hook (lambda ()
     (add-to-list 'custom-theme-load-path "~/.emacs.d/themes")
     (load-file (expand-file-name "config.el" user-emacs-directory))
     (load-theme 'nord t)
-    (setq gc-cons-threshold (* 2 1000 1000))
   ))
 
-(add-hook 'emacs-startup-hook
-          (lambda ()
-            (message "Emacs ready in %s with %d garbage collections."
-                     (format "%.2f seconds"
-                             (float-time
-                              (time-subtract after-init-time before-init-time)))
-                     gcs-done)))
+(defun my/after-startup ()
+  (message "Emacs ready in %s with %d garbage collections."
+           (format "%.2f seconds"
+                   (float-time
+                    (time-subtract (current-time) start-time)))
+           gcs-done)
+
+  ;; set proper gc values after load
+  (setq gc-cons-threshold (* 2 1000 1000))
+  )
+
+(add-hook 'emacs-startup-hook #'my/after-startup)
 
 (require 'package)
 (setq package-enable-at-startup nil)