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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
To: XEmacs Developers <xemacs-beta@xemacs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Smallpox in Gnus
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Hrvoje Niksic writes:
 > 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'.

Yes.  Very few top-level calls do anything time consuming.
make-face is an exception, but make-face isn't used often.

