From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: byte-compiling files loaded in loadup.el Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:12:17 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281100357 24819 80.91.229.12 (6 Aug 2010 13:12:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 13:12:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 06 15:12:33 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhMiu-0003sC-5g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:12:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37921 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OhMit-0005DR-Dc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:12:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38822 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OhMij-0005D2-5V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:12:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhMih-0006CH-PT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:12:21 -0400 Original-Received: from impaqm2.telefonica.net ([213.4.138.2]:57686) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhMih-0006Bl-J3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:12:19 -0400 Original-Received: from IMPmailhost4.adm.correo ([10.20.102.125]) by IMPaqm2.telefonica.net with bizsmtp id r0b01e00M2iL0W23M1CJr8; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:12:18 +0200 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([83.61.38.247]) by IMPmailhost4.adm.correo with BIZ IMP id r1CH1e00F5KwfZf1k1CJdY; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:12:18 +0200 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-TE-authinfo: authemail="monnier$movistar.es" |auth_email="monnier@movistar.es" X-TE-AcuTerraCos: auth_cuTerraCos="cosuitnetc01" Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id A9F5A662D6; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 15:12:17 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Thu, 05 Aug 2010 23:23:12 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:128380 Archived-At: > A little experiment shows that byte compiling any of the files in > loadup.el that are currently not byte compiled (and not explicitly > excluded by loading the .el version) the pure size grows a little bit. > This means that there are a few extra objects that do not need to be > garbage collected every single time the garbage collector runs. Maybe it means instead that the byte-compiled versions use up more space. Stefan