Hi John, John Wiegley <jwieg...@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi all, I'm considering switching my lengthy .emacs over to a literate Org > file, using ob-tangle, and as I was wondering if others had any experience > with this, and if so, does it slow down startup much? The first load after a .org file is changed will require re-tangling of the file, but in most cases the .el files are loaded directly and there should be no slowdown. I've been using this for over a year now with no noticable slowdown. For an example of a large config structured using .org files and based on Emacs24 see [1]. > Is there a way to get ob-tangle to compile the resulting Elisp file? Yes, see the makefile in the repo I pointed to above [2]. > > I'm guessing it does not regenerate the .el file if no changes have > been made to the .org, right? > That is correct, the `org-babel-load-file' function compares the modification dates of the .el and .org file to see if re-tangling is required. Best of luck -- Eric > > Thanks, > John > > Footnotes: [1] https://github.com/eschulte/emacs24-starter-kit [2] https://github.com/eschulte/emacs24-starter-kit/blob/master/Makefile -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
