From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Loading souce Elisp faster Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:47:04 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87liac14jy.fsf@kanis.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1361832430 14025 80.91.229.3 (25 Feb 2013 22:47:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:47:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ivan Kanis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 25 23:47:33 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UA6pZ-0002Ng-1k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:47:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51222 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA6pE-0000LJ-2M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:47:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33712) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA6pB-0000K8-9e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:47:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA6p8-0007tZ-TZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:47:09 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37169) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA6p8-0007tT-Oj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:47:06 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA6p7-0006oP-0A; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:47:05 -0500 X-Spook: AIEWS CBNRC NATO Capricorn Consul Echelon Attorney X-Ran: Ws[dj (Ivan Kanis's message of "Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:12:17 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:157354 Archived-At: Ivan Kanis wrote: > February, 24 at 20:40 Stefan wrote: > >> It used to be the case that compiling one's .emacs was silly because it >> provided no measurable speed difference. But nowadays this is not true >> any more: loading a source Elisp file is significantly slower because it >> goes through load-with-code-conversion. > > Why don't you let the user decides if she needs to compile her .emacs? (That's something of a non-sequitur...) You're free to compile it if you like. I'm free to have an opinion about whether it's worthwhile (and to write about it in the Emacs manual, which I did 5 years ago.)