early-init.el

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

;; Emacs 27.1 introduced early-init.el, which is run before init.el, before
;; package and UI initialization happens, and before site files are loaded.

;; A big contributor to startup times is garbage collection. We up the gc
;; threshold to temporarily prevent it from running, then reset it later by
;; enabling `gcmh-mode'. Not resetting it will cause stuttering/freezes.
(setq gc-cons-threshold most-positive-fixnum)

;; Prevent unwanted runtime compilation for gccemacs (native-comp) users;
;; packages are compiled ahead-of-time when they are installed and site files
;; are compiled when gccemacs is installed.
;; REVIEW Remove after a month
(setq comp-deferred-compilation nil
      native-comp-deferred-compilation nil)

;; In noninteractive sessions, prioritize non-byte-compiled source files to
;; prevent the use of stale byte-code. Otherwise, it saves us a little IO time
;; to skip the mtime checks on every *.elc file.
(setq load-prefer-newer noninteractive)

;; In Emacs 27+, package initialization occurs before `user-init-file' is
;; loaded, but after `early-init-file'. Doom handles package initialization, so
;; we must prevent Emacs from doing it early!
(setq package-enable-at-startup nil)
(fset #'package--ensure-init-file #'ignore)  ; DEPRECATED Removed in 28

(unless (or (daemonp) noninteractive)
  (let ((old-file-name-handler-alist file-name-handler-alist))
    ;; `file-name-handler-alist' is consulted on each `require', `load' and
    ;; various path/io functions. You get a minor speed up by unsetting this.
    ;; Some warning, however: this could cause problems on builds of Emacs where
    ;; its site lisp files aren't byte-compiled and we're forced to load the
    ;; *.el.gz files (e.g. on Alpine).
    (setq-default file-name-handler-alist nil)
    ;; ...but restore `file-name-handler-alist' later, because it is needed for
    ;; handling encrypted or compressed files, among other things.
    (defun doom-reset-file-handler-alist-h ()
      (setq file-name-handler-alist
            ;; Merge instead of overwrite because there may have bene changes to
            ;; `file-name-handler-alist' since startup we want to preserve.
            (delete-dups (append file-name-handler-alist
                                 old-file-name-handler-alist))))
    (add-hook 'emacs-startup-hook #'doom-reset-file-handler-alist-h 101)))

;; Ensure Doom is running out of this file's directory
(setq user-emacs-directory (file-name-directory load-file-name))

;; Load the heart of Doom Emacs
(load (concat user-emacs-directory "core/core") nil 'nomessage)