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Xiong Guanglei <xgl99@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn> wrote in message news:<1xyoi93s.fsf@tu202155.tsinghua.edu.cn>...
> can .emacs.elc speed up the loading process?

If you have written any major editing commands try putting them in a
separate file, byte-compiling this file and loading it in .emacs . 
This keeps them away from configurations you may change often.  As
others have said theres not much to be gained though.