From: Jay Belanger <belanger@truman.edu>
Subject: Re: byte-compiling .emacs
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:33:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8764yto02m.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: vfaco5whwt.fsf@rpc71.cs.man.ac.uk
Phillip Lord <p.lord@cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
>>>>>> "Joe" == Joe Corneli <jcorneli@math.utexas.edu> writes:
>
> Joe> On Sun, Apr 10 2005, Joe Corneli <jcorneli@math.utexas.edu>
> Joe> wrote:
>
> >> But, note, what you should really do is byte compile the .emacs,
>
> Joe> Why? Typically this isn't worth the trouble ("Changes is my
> Joe> .emacs are ignored!!!1 What's wrong???ß").
>
>
> Joe> OK, I guess I was wrong. I personally always byte compile mine
> Joe> b/c otherwise emacs complains that the source file is newer.
> Joe> Other people might not have that problem :). But perhaps I'm
> Joe> the one who should change...
>
> If you don't byte-compile it at all, then it won't.
And of course remove the .elc file.
> I think that there is an auto recompile package out there somewhere.
> I never compiled my .emacs or subsidiary files myself. I doubt that it
> makes that much difference.
It does make a difference for me (but only a few seconds difference),
but I probably have too much junk in it. At any rate, I moved most of
the junk to subsidiary files, which I do compile (and have to remember
to recompile whenever I change them), and have my (uncompiled) .emacs
do little more than load them.
At any rate, even when I didn't compile, the overhead was a one-time
(per boot) overhead of a few seconds, so not compiling was never
really a problem.
Jay
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-11 14:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.931.1113065284.2895.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-04-09 17:27 ` how can I tell emacs to treat a text file as html? Albert Reiner
2005-04-09 17:43 ` Angelina Carlton
2005-04-09 18:11 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2005-04-09 18:46 ` Angelina Carlton
2005-04-09 18:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-04-09 19:39 ` Angelina Carlton
2005-04-09 22:30 ` Angelina Carlton
[not found] ` <mailman.951.1113084713.2895.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-04-10 1:15 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2005-04-10 5:16 ` Joe Corneli
[not found] ` <mailman.961.1113108735.2895.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-04-11 11:40 ` byte-compiling .emacs (was: how can I tell emacs to treat a text file as html?) Reiner Steib
2005-04-11 13:10 ` Joe Corneli
2005-04-11 13:56 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.1067.1113227351.2895.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-04-11 17:19 ` byte-compiling .emacs David Kastrup
2005-04-11 19:41 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.1061.1113223276.2895.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-04-11 13:40 ` byte-compiling .emacs (was: how can I tell emacs to treat a text file as html?) Phillip Lord
2005-04-11 14:33 ` Jay Belanger [this message]
2005-04-12 0:58 ` byte-compiling .emacs Barry Margolin
2005-04-14 12:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-04-14 17:43 ` Jay Belanger
2005-04-12 1:31 ` Quokka
2005-04-14 12:45 ` how can I tell emacs to treat a text file as html? Stefan Monnier
2005-04-15 7:47 ` Steinar Børmer
2005-04-15 8:22 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-04-15 13:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-04-15 14:44 ` Joe Corneli
[not found] ` <mailman.1644.1113577291.2895.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-04-15 15:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-04-15 18:00 ` kgold
2005-04-12 18:48 byte-compiling .emacs Ryan Bowman
2005-04-12 21:45 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-04-12 22:24 ` Joe Corneli
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