>>>>> "Rob" == Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Note that this indicates that in these cases it's up to the
> maintainer to determine when performance is an issue. For
> example, if there's only one .el file, and it just contains
> (setq load-path (cons "/some/load/dir") load-path)
> Then I don't think byte-compiling's worth the effort.
It's almost always worth the effort to byte compile the code. It
will alway result in a performance gain. Often the code uses lisp
macros, which run much faster when byte compiled, since they get
expanded once at compile time, rather than each time they are read.
