Re: Install-time byte-compiling: Why bother?

1999-05-23 Thread Greg Stark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Obviously I've misunderstood the behaviour of Emacs here - I'd assumed that the internal form was the same regardless of whether one got there via byte-compiling or not. Apparently this isn't the case! it certainly isn't. I have to question your results too, the

Re: Install-time byte-compiling: Why bother?

1999-05-12 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 02:31:39PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On another machine, this a 300Mhz K6-2, I invoked W3 in Xemacs20 (using lisp interaction mode to eliminate the wait for the user to enter a URL). In this case it was 10 seconds for .elc files, 15 seconds if it had to

Re: Install-time byte-compiling: Why bother?

1999-05-12 Thread rjk
Torsten Landschoff writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On another machine, this a 300Mhz K6-2, I invoked W3 in Xemacs20 (using lisp interaction mode to eliminate the wait for the user to enter a URL). In this case it was 10 seconds for .elc files, 15 seconds if it had to byte-compile the .el

Re: Install-time byte-compiling: Why bother?

1999-05-11 Thread Martin Mitchell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chris Waters writes: I *strongly* oppose eliminating it, and I'm not real big on the idea of making the default be off. Installing new packages takes a while, I don't mind a few extra moments there. I *do* mind run-time delays, even if they're small,

Install-time byte-compiling: Why bother?

1999-05-09 Thread rjk
Jonathan Walther writes: On Sat, 8 May 1999, Richard Kettlewell wrote: 3. A lot of the Emacs packages spend ages byte-compiling various files during the install. Given that the results might well never be used this seems rather wasteful. Also it's quite time-consuming, even on a fast

Re: Install-time byte-compiling: Why bother?

1999-05-09 Thread Chris Waters
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I suggest, therefore, that the install-time byte-compilation of elisp files be either eliminated completely, or turned into an option, with the default set to off. I *strongly* oppose eliminating it, and I'm not real big on the idea of making the default be off.

Re: Install-time byte-compiling: Why bother?

1999-05-09 Thread rjk
Chris Waters writes: I *strongly* oppose eliminating it, and I'm not real big on the idea of making the default be off. Installing new packages takes a while, I don't mind a few extra moments there. I *do* mind run-time delays, even if they're small, There is always a delay; this is