From: Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs & Lisp question
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:19:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <h24ro4$27j$11@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1371.1246077688.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Ben Badgley <mortecanine@peoplepc.com> writes:
> 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? ;-)
>
Emacs can use gzipped el files. e.g text-mode.el.gz.
However, at about 80 euro for a terabyte of hard drive, I wonder if its
a good investment of anyone times and effort at this stage when one
considers the overhead in start up time! A trade off only you can call.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-27 10:19 UTC|newest]
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2009-06-27 5:52 ` Emacs & Lisp question Tim X
2009-06-27 10:19 ` Richard Riley [this message]
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2016-04-18 16:05 ` Emacs lisp question Barry Margolin
2016-04-18 14:27 Matthias Pfeifer
2016-04-18 19:50 ` tomas
2016-04-19 10:39 ` Matthias Pfeifer
2016-04-19 11:59 ` Alexis
2016-04-22 9:05 ` Matthias Pfeifer
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2013-06-27 15:33 ` Emacs Lisp Question Barry Margolin
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2013-06-27 13:11 drain
2013-06-27 13:25 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2011-02-06 23:19 Emacs lisp question Ben
2011-02-07 1:38 ` Barry Margolin
2011-02-06 23:04 Ben Key
2011-02-07 0:49 ` Perry Smith
2011-02-07 1:05 ` Drew Adams
2011-02-07 1:30 ` Ben Key
2009-06-27 13:08 Emacs & Lisp question Ben Badgley
2009-06-26 23:05 Ben Badgley
2009-06-27 17:40 ` Johan Bockgård
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2004-01-09 16:48 ` Emacs " Paolo Gianrossi
2004-01-09 15:55 Gian Uberto Lauri
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2003-08-22 11:17 ` Emacs LISP Question Klaus Zeitler
2003-08-20 16:04 Yakov Nekritch
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