Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 19:22:47 +0200
> 
> > What is your problem with compressed *.el files?  When Emacs visits
> > such a file, it uncompresses it, so you see the original source.  And
> > yet people keep mentioning the .gz extension as if it were a huge
> > problem.  What am I missing?
> It takes time, at least on my computer. There is a noticable delay,
> where everything freezes for a small amount of time, but it is like a
> sudden break.

You can always install without compressing.

> I also don't see the point of running make install every time after I
> pulled and rebuild emacs, when I can equally well run it from src
> folder.

Then don't install.  This whole discussion was for people who do, for
one reason or another.