This so dumb, but once on the AskReddit someone posted:
Your murderer says, "You get to choose one object. If I can't kill you in 15 minutes with that object, you get to leave." What do you choose?
I wrote:
A confetto (the singular of confetti).
And it received 4.5K up votes.
There's probably something with with your installation or configuration. For me Emacs has always felt fast and has been getting faster, the biggest jump being of course the native compiler.