Re: Speeding up Emacs load time

[Dan Espen]

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

> Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:
>
>> The black background - *much* less light enters your eyes. But it
>> is not like the light from (for example) the sun, because the
>> light from the monitor (projector in my case) holds information
>> that must be decoded, and, at a fixed distance, while maintaining
>> a high degree of concentration, it makes your eyes not blink -
>> which makes for *dry* eyes. The black background really, really
>> helps.
>
> It only works if you're sitting in a darkly-lit room, using dark desktop
> theme, and don't routinely switch to e.g. web browser, wherein most of
> the websites are dark-on-light.
>
> Otherwise, the switching between levels of contrast will put even more
> strain on the eyes. I'm sure you'll notice that when you get a few more
> years sitting before a computer under your belt. I'm 26, and I've
> started paying attention to this 2-3 years ago.

I'm 67 and I say nope.

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Dan Espen