Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I tried it with my local build of master (not optimized) as well as with
>> the "emacs24" executable provided by Debian.  Both times were comparable.
> An unoptimized Emacs runs about 3 times slower,

In my experience it's much less drastic, unless you include
enable_checking and such in "unoptimized".

> so I cannot explain your comparable results with both versions, it
> doesn't match any of my experiences.

The way I explained it to myself is that the lread.c code is much
less affected (e.g. it should almost be unaffected by enable_checking).

BTW, have you tried my experiement on your side?


        Stefan