Re: Loading souce Elisp faster

[Glenn Morris]

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.)