early-init.el

;;; early-init.el -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-

;; Emacs HEAD (27+) introduces early-init.el, which is run before init.el,
;; before package and UI initialization happens.

;; Defer garbage collection further back in the startup process
(setq gc-cons-threshold most-positive-fixnum)

;; Packages
;; (setq package-enable-at-startup nil)

;; Prevent the glimpse of un-styled Emacs by disabling these UI elements early.
(push '(menu-bar-lines . 0) default-frame-alist)
(push '(tool-bar-lines . 0) default-frame-alist)
(push '(vertical-scroll-bars) default-frame-alist)

;; Resizing the Emacs frame can be a terribly expensive part of changing the
;; font. By inhibiting this, we easily halve startup times with fonts that are
;; larger than the system default.
(setq frame-inhibit-implied-resize t)

;; Prevent unwanted runtime builds; packages are compiled ahead-of-time when
;; they are installed and site files are compiled when gccemacs is installed.
(setq comp-deferred-compilation t) ; edit: nope!