From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Per Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: customize, futility of byte-compiling Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 12:01:59 +0200 Organization: The Church of Emacs Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200207111201.g6BC1OM16938@aztec.santafe.edu> <15680.26449.937153.817907@localhost.localdomain> <200207271853.g6RIrdt10834@aztec.santafe.edu> <200207291522.g6TFMLj26086@localhost.localdomain> <200208090652.g796qvr11416@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200208101230.g7ACUI816729@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029146546 32055 127.0.0.1 (12 Aug 2002 10:02:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 10:02:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17eC1p-0008Ku-00 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 12:02:25 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17eCPo-0000sz-00 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 12:27:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17eC2d-0006dz-00; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 06:03:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17eC1w-0006bG-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 06:02:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17eC1u-0006b4-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 06:02:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [130.225.40.227] (helo=sheridan.dina.kvl.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17eC1u-0006Zw-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 06:02:30 -0400 Original-Received: from zuse.dina.kvl.dk (zuse.dina.kvl.dk [130.225.40.245]) by sheridan.dina.kvl.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id MAA03342; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 12:02:01 +0200 Original-Received: (from abraham@localhost) by zuse.dina.kvl.dk (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id MAA09135; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 12:01:59 +0200 (MEST) X-Authentication-Warning: zuse.dina.kvl.dk: abraham set sender to abraham@dina.kvl.dk using -f Original-To: eddy@opera.no X-Face: +kRV2]2q}lixHkE{U)mY#+6]{AH=yN~S9@IFiOa@X6?GM|8MBp/ In-Reply-To: (Edward Welbourne's message of "Mon, 12 Aug 2002 10:00:51 +0200") Original-Lines: 9 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:6456 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6456 Edward Welbourne writes: > Why does byte-compilation gain no benefit ? > Is this specific to customizations, or generally true ? The "customize" information is just a single function call, all the real work is done by the function it calls. So you can byte-compile the call to the function, but that doesn't make the function itself (where the time is spend) any faster.