Yes. But its not much and they don't make a lot of difference.

Is it possible to tell emacs not to load particular set of modules like
i don't ever want to load viper. things like that..so that it becomes 
sleek and fast.

Regards,
Maindoor.

--- On Tue, 8/4/09, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Emacs terribly slow
To: "Maindoor" <sanjeevfiles@yahoo.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 9:51 PM

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Maindoor<sanjeevfiles@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>     I'm using emacs 23.0.91.1 and i load a few files using load-file
>     in my .emacs file like session, hide-mode-line, uniquify, color-theme
>     bs.el etc. but lately its become very very slow. Emacs it seems is
>     panting and running out of breath when i open a file or when I browse
>     around the file. Is there any way to optimize for speed ?

Hi Maindoor,

Did you try removing stuff from your .emacs?