From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Re: Org update script Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:41:42 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87abww144m.fsf@pdrechsler.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v624) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HgvtO-0007rU-H4 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:47:42 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HgvtM-0007rI-Vp for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:47:41 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HgvtM-0007rF-Pf for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:47:40 -0400 Received: from korteweg.uva.nl ([146.50.98.70]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hgvnf-0000G7-1O for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:41:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87abww144m.fsf@pdrechsler.de> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Patrick Drechsler Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Apr 26, 2007, at 0:27, Patrick Drechsler wrote: > "Scott Jaderholm" writes: >> wget http://staff.science.uva.nl/~dominik/Tools/org/ >> awk to find out version number >> wget http://staff.science.uva.nl/~dominik/Tools/org/org-x.zip >> tar -xvzf org-x.tar.gz >> rm -rf ~/org-tar.gz >> rm ~/.elisp/org >> mv org-x ~/.elisp/org >> cd ~/.elisp/org >> make > > Why make? > > Isn't org mode small enough to run with *.el files instead of *.elc > files? org.el is the single biggest Emacs Lisp file in the Emacs distribution. Admittetly there are larger packages like gnus that have een split over many files, but still org-mode is PRETTY BIG. I am glad that it still feels lightweight to you, this is one of the goals of its development. I would always recommend doing the compilation step. It speeds up loading of the file, and the general performance is much better. Still most operations are fast enough so that you will not feel the difference. However, producing a large agenda, or in particular recomputing a large spreadsheet will be a lot faster with compiled org.elc. The one case when you should not use a compiled file is when sending be the traceback of an error - that is much more useful when made with uncompiled code. - Carsten