On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 22:50, Mark Johnson wrote: > > I hadn't heard about the value of > > byte-compiling in Emacs (until I just google'd about it). > > > > Can you give us the shortcut method and reasoning? > > The reasoning is that the code will execute faster because it's > partially compiled. > > The shortcut method is to use the menus (when in elisp mode): > Emacs-Lisp -> Byte-compile This File > > Of course, 'M-x byte-compile-file' also does the trick. > > There are other byte-compiling options that may make more sense for > a given context. See the attached screenshot > 'emacs-byte-compiling.png' for a visual of the menu-based usage. Well, I'll be darned. It really is faster loading! Is it just my imagination, or did fontifying the XML (I think that's what it's called when I do C-C C-P to parse the DTD, right?) get faster also? -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE
