From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Llu=C3=ADs?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is compiling autoloads useful? Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:06:19 +0100 Message-ID: <87ehwdhjis.fsf@ginnungagap.bsc.es> References: <20193.57279.774332.141767@gargle.gargle.HOWL> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1323443200 29971 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2011 15:06:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 15:06:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Roland Winkler , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 09 16:06:36 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RZ21y-0002IK-FX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:06:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48658 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RZ21x-0007Aq-T8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:06:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:47141) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RZ21q-0007AT-3D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:06:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RZ21m-0007nf-N4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:06:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.22]:51199) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RZ21m-0007mr-A1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:06:22 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 09 Dec 2011 15:06:19 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (EHLO localhost) [84.88.53.92] by mail.gmx.net (mp072) with SMTP; 09 Dec 2011 16:06:19 +0100 X-Authenticated: #12333383 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18HudN/BiEHiWLcfIaaxaP+ImCgMdiKLGqIdxqi12 VX7RJuMK2cJJVL In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:12:49 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 213.165.64.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:146603 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > Some people have reported that byte-compiling their .emacs makes > a measurable difference to their Emacs's startup time, tho, so there > might some advantage, but I must say I don't know where it comes from > (it must be linked to the way the file is loaded rather than to the > actual evaluation; maybe some decoding overhead or something like that). Well, I'd say that's because people's .emacs tend to be more complex than an autoload file :) apa! -- "And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer." -- The Princess of Pure Reason, as told by Norton Juster in The Phantom Tollbooth