Recently, after each rebuild, I noticed that Emacs' total installation size has become bigger overtime. That's understandably unavoidable but there's room for improvement. By analyzing disk usage I discovered that: "lisp/leim/"'s compiled elisp files are taking the most significant disk storage. By inspecting some of those, I don't think we are able to gain any practical benefit by compiling them, they don't contain (~)any function/macro definitions at all. So I try to disable byte-compilation (by either dir-local vars or file-local vars) in: - lisp/leim/ : I disable for the whole directory And some more .el(s) that I don't find so essential to compile: - lisp/play/ : not so serious or critical to workflows - lisp/cedet/{ede,semantic,srecode}/ : we now have LSP/eglot! - lisp/cedet/{ede.el,semantic.el} : same as above, also a big file by itself (I wished pulse.el, mode-local.el, data-debug.el were moved out of this lisp/cedet/, then putting a single .dir-local.el there would be the simplest) - lisp/obsolete/ : already obsolete anyway, but some packages may still depend on them so no-native-compile only Then build Emacs again. The final size of my Emacs installation, compared to before applying those no-compile local variables: 298.79 MiB -> 253.09 MiB That's 45.7 MiB disk saved. About 15.3% of total shaved! Please consider at least "lisp/leim/"'s gigantic files such as "ZIRANMA.el", "ARRAY30.el", "ja-dic.el" ,etc. as I find those the most disk-expensive when compiled, yet questionable benefit and waste of time spending to build. In GNU Emacs 29.0.60 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.35, cairo version 1.17.6) of 2022-11-30 built on dan-laptop Repository revision: ec7908204e3d1d415a17813a1fac1a8de334d3b1 Repository branch: makepkg System Description: Arch Linux Configured using: 'configure --sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var '--program-transform-name='\''s/\(ctags\)/\1.emacs/'\''' --with-json --with-libsystemd --with-mailutils --with-modules --with-native-compilation --with-pgtk --without-xaw3d --with-sound=alsa --with-tree-sitter --with-xinput2 --with-xwidgets --with-native-compilation=aot --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-march=native -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection' LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now' Configured features: ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBOTF LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PGTK PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP XIM XWIDGETS GTK3 ZLIB -- Daanturo.