Re[1]: [CEDET-devel] More installation problems

[Eric M. L. <er...@si...>]

>>> Olivier Lefevre <lef...@ya...> seems to think that:
>>   What are the relevant parts of your ~/.emacs.el ?
>
>Don't blame my .emacs ;-) I put in it what I was told, no
>more, no less, i.e.
>
>(load-file "c:/emacs/site-lisp/cedet-1.0pre3/common/cedet.el")
>(semantic-load-enable-code-helpers)
>
>Must one absolutely byte-compile, btw? Why not just run
>from .el files? I suspect this compilation thing is a
>remnant from days when machines were slow and emacs was
>a taxing application for most but that is no longer the
>case.

Byte compilation is important for several things.  It speeds up
macros.  It reduces the memory footprint of a program, in particular
by excluding doc strings from memory.  It will also optimize code that
consists mainly of built-in list manipulators.

EIEIO, in particular, gets a huge speed boost in method invocation
from byte-compilation.

  [ ... ]
>PS: Is the spelling of guady-code-helpers really intended?
>One would expect gaudy, not guady.

Sounds like something worth fixing.  Thanks.

Eric

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