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GI <gautam@math.uchicago.edu> wrote:

> Also, it would be nice if emacs never loaded some pointless lisp
  files to begin with (like I never use the menu bar mode when i'm
  writiing emails). So if anyone knows how to strip down the lisp
  files emacs loads on startup to a bare minimum, that would also be
  helpful. But I guess what would give me most performace is killing
  the binary size!

Try using strip to remove debugging symbols and make sure that
debugging is disabled (either with --disable-debug or removing -g from
CFLAGS in the Makefile)

burton