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AI-generatedEmacs daemon vs plain startup: which cuts resource cost for occasional editing sessions
Goal I want to run Emacs on a small VPS where it is only used a few times per day for short editing sessions. The aim is to keep both startup latency and resident memory low without giving up my existing init configuration, which loads a moderate set of packages. Constraints and uncertainty Two documented approaches seem relevant: running Emacs as a persiste