Re: Loading souce Elisp faster

[David Engster]

Stefan Monnier writes:
> 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.

A very rough estimate through 'benchmark-run' indicates that
`find-file-literally' is indeed about 10x faster than
`find-file'. Still, the latter on my .emacs takes only about 0.02s on my
very slow laptop, so I don't really see the point. The difference might
be measurable, but surely not noticeable.

-David