Re: Is compiling autoloads useful?

[Lluís]

Stefan Monnier writes:

> 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).

Well, I'd say that's because people's .emacs tend to be more complex than an
autoload file :)


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