Rough start... (emacs byte-compiling)

[Paul W. Frields]

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