From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: How to speed up emacs start time? Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:34:40 -0700 Message-ID: References: <3b9893450907301716l24ed658fpb11060fba7143fe3@mail.gmail.com> <272effe0-d944-4ef4-b9d8-f7db0587f1df@c2g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249050993 29794 80.91.229.12 (31 Jul 2009 14:36:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:36:33 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Elena'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 31 16:36:26 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MWtDY-0008Kk-VF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:36:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37151 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWtDY-00072V-0o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:36:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWtCC-0006VU-Nz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:34:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWtC8-0006Pk-Vu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:34:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60976 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWtC8-0006Pa-FZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:34:52 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet12.oracle.com ([141.146.126.234]:51282) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MWtC7-0004nc-UZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:34:52 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by acsinet12.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n6VEYPLC012305 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:34:26 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt006.oracle.com (abhmt006.oracle.com [141.146.116.15]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n6VEZ3Hg018776; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:35:03 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.168.5) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:34:43 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <272effe0-d944-4ef4-b9d8-f7db0587f1df@c2g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> Thread-Index: AcoRupLrXYNK9gkDShWK9MrVkl0xkAAMTTsg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-Source-IP: abhmt006.oracle.com [141.146.116.15] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A010202.4A730106.0055:SCFSTAT5015188,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:66574 Archived-At: > > If you modify any of the source files that you've > > byte-compiled (e.g. you downloaded a later version), > > you can use `M-x byte-recompile-directory' to > > recompile any that whose *.elc files are out of date. > > That's like a mini-`make' for byte-compiled files. > > Can't you just `M-x byte-recompile-directory' on the first instance? `byte-recompile-*' only RE-compiles. It does not compile any *.el in the directory that have not already been compiled. This means you can keep some files uncompiled, yet still keep the *.elc up-to-date using `byte-recompile-*'.