From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jay Belanger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: byte-compiling .emacs Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:33:05 -0500 Message-ID: <8764yto02m.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> References: <87wtrbajgq.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> <87br8nh1p8.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> Reply-To: belanger@truman.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1113230088 14505 80.91.229.2 (11 Apr 2005 14:34:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 14:34:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 11 16:34:45 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DKzxQ-0006bZ-6t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:32:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DKzXW-00067G-4X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 10:05:22 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!nntp-server.caltech.edu!newsfeeds.nerdc.ufl.edu!nntp.newsfirst.net!newshub.more.net!news.more.net!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:PgPQKYqXx3BjmEVBkcxbVQXfp6o= Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.243.226.30 Original-X-Trace: news.more.net 1113229985 150.243.226.30 (Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:33:05 CDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:33:05 CDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:130000 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:25564 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25564 Phillip Lord writes: >>>>>> "Joe" == Joe Corneli writes: > > Joe> On Sun, Apr 10 2005, Joe Corneli > 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