On 2016-07-05 07:42, Stephen Berman wrote:
> 1. emacs -Q
>    C-x C-f foo.el RET
>    M-x eval-buffer RET
> 
> 2. emacs -Q
>    M-x load-file RET foo.el RET

If foo.el uses load-file-name in any way (for example to find the path to the current file and load other resources), then these two procedures won't do the same thing.