From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:43:35 +0000 Organization: muc.de e.V. -- private internet access Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1068549500 16262 80.91.224.253 (11 Nov 2003 11:18:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:18:20 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 11 12:18:18 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AJWXJ-0001IJ-00 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:18:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AJXJK-0006J1-9M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 07:07:54 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!newsfeed.r-kom.de!news.m-online.net!news.space.net!news.muc.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: acm.muc.de Original-X-Trace: marvin.muc.de 1068547231 59501 193.149.49.134 (11 Nov 2003 10:40:31 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news-admin@muc.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Nov 2003 10:40:31 GMT User-Agent: tin/1.4.5-20010409 ("One More Nightmare") (UNIX) (Linux/2.0.35 (i686)) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:118106 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:14046 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14046 kgold wrote on 10 Nov 2003 21:17:28 GMT: > Stefan Monnier writes: >> > Never byte-compile your .emacs file by hand again! >> Better yet: >> Never byte-compile your .emacs file >> This way, you save disk space, time, and energy when things don't work >> as expected. >> Have you ever measured a speed difference between starting Emacs with >> .emacs.el and with .emacs.elc ? I strongly doubt it (unless you write >> a lot of real elisp code in your .emacs which is a bad idea in the >> first place). > Even better yet, use gnuserv. Who cares how long it takes to start > when you do it twice a year. Some of us actually have to pay for our electricity. Some of us care that leaving a computer running continuously spews carbon dioxide into the atmosphere (fuelling global warming) and creates radioactive waste. We switch our computers off when not in use. I often boot my computer several times a day. But I don't like leaving Emacs running, even when my PC is on. You see, jit-lock runs continuously in the background, consuming vast amounts of CPU usage, thus contributing even more to global warming, et al. <\flamebait> -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany) Email: aacm@muuc.dee; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter (like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a").