From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ben Badgley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Emacs & Lisp question Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:05:10 -0400 Message-ID: <4A455426.4030503@peoplepc.com> Reply-To: mortecanine@peoplepc.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246078054 26905 80.91.229.12 (27 Jun 2009 04:47:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:47:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 27 06:47:26 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MKPoz-0004ka-QE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:47:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48005 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MKPoz-0002wX-Bt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:47:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MKKU2-0005Wo-Pu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:05:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MKKTv-0005WU-UL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:05:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58181 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MKKTv-0005WR-Ow for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:05:19 -0400 Original-Received: from smtpauth14.mail.atl.earthlink.net ([209.86.89.74]:37237) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MKKTv-0002s7-Bf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:05:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.24.173.169] by smtpauth14.mail.atl.earthlink.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MKKTt-000626-1d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:05:18 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) X-ELNK-Trace: 7fda2c5ebd6463984ad58b00c49f6d41ee5776d5a6a9b74681075cee6058c0aef8f40a856a853639a7ce0e8f8d31aa3f350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 64.24.173.169 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:41:26 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:65580 Archived-At: Been using Google all day to no avail. I think it is pretty straight forward question. Can you use compressed Lisp code? Will it evaluate, compile and evaluate? The reason I ask is due to looking at the Emacs directory. The Lisp code directory sure does eat up a lot of space. So, it came to mind, "why not compress each of those buggers and let the interpreter use them from the archives?" Will Emacs allow this? Further is it even doable beyond Emacs? This may not be exactly the best place for me to ask, understood. I am trying to keep it related to Emacs on a general usage level. If we can use compressed libraries, wouldn't it be worth knowing? ;-) --- Ben