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n179911 <n179911@gmail.com> writes:

> And in my ~/bin/emacslib, I have
>
> $ ls
> icicles-chg.el   icicles-doc1.el  icicles-fn.el    icicles-mode.el  icicles.el
> icicles-cmd1.el  icicles-doc2.el  icicles-mac.el   icicles-opt.el
> icicles-cmd2.el  icicles-face.el  icicles-mcmd.el  icicles-var.el
>
> Can you please tell me how can I speed up emacs startup time? Is there
> anyway to compile the .el. files so that emacs can come up faster?

This is what I would do: In a dired buffer of the ~/bin/emacslib
directory, mark the .el files with 'M' and then byte-compile them with
'B'.