From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs & Lisp question Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:19:48 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246105023 15409 80.91.229.12 (27 Jun 2009 12:17:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:17:03 +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 14:16:57 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 1MKWq0-000255-IE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:16:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39588 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MKWpz-0002iw-Sm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:16:55 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-2.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!feeder.motzarella.org!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!news.motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX18+3Jnc5MBXEBEKmCIbTnewGsrcRvaTcO4alQnyzvt024KnYsoJKAbuBFfg7HlTX2xpvM67fLE6SljkEeecvjenqKim0Mi6lG9IO5JK7i0PaClxIR8YVTTM9UBH3XHzw4g= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@motzarella.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:19:48 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX19qkhfhgF7pjsdfRkM3yIcnPxFG6U7n9xpSeMl/mpvc8Q== Cancel-Lock: sha1:HDoP7vUzmsLYzKLGVxCWgRTHaxQ= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170374 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:05:39 -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:65596 Archived-At: Ben Badgley 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.