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Re: Is compiling autoloads useful?
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Is compiling autoloads useful? |
Date: |
Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:12:49 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) |
> The Makefile used by the rather old BBDB v2 compiles the file
> with BBDB autoloads. Does such a step offer any advantage with a
> recent version of GNU Emacs?
It all depends on what gets put in there. But if you only get calls to
`autoload' and a few calls to `add-to-list', byte-compilation should not
make any difference to the speed of the code.
Some people have reported that byte-compiling their .emacs makes
a measurable difference to their Emacs's startup time, tho, so there
might some advantage, but I must say I don't know where it comes from
(it must be linked to the way the file is loaded rather than to the
actual evaluation; maybe some decoding overhead or something like that).
Stefan