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 files themselves. This was > > Interesting! Where did you get that version of Xemacs? My xemacs > does not byte-compile the .el-Files on loading (that would take > REALLY long) but instead slows down a bit.
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! > I don't think it's valid to compare times for LOADING the > files. It's quite simple to load the .el-Files. Try to run some lisp > code doing heavy stuff - e.g. opening a 200k html file with w3. Ah yes, that does make a significant difference - 67s with *.elc versus 120s with *.el for a 100613 byte HTML file. Then again, neither time is remotely tolerable for web browsing, given that Lynx and Netscape both render the same web page in less than a second! The point is well made, though. ttfn/rjk
