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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 10 Jul 1997 21:52:01 +0200
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Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:

> Speed?  So we can stop arguing/worrying about it?
[...]
> Gosling Emacs' bytecode file were straight binary, unreadable by the
> Lisp reader and most humans.  And they loaded like a bat out of
> hell.

Are you sure loading of bytecode is the critical speed bottleneck when 
loading .elc files in XEmacs?  I'd say much more time is lost on
evaluating seemingly simple top-level forms, like `make-face'.

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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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