Re: Loading souce Elisp faster

[Stefan Monnier]

>     The fast path (used by elc) parses the data straight from the file,
>     whereas the slow path loads the file into a buffer (which includes any
>     decoding if needed) and only then passes the resulting byte-stream to
>     the parser.
> If the coding system were known in advance to be utf-8, it would
> still need to be read into a buffer, decoded, and parsed from there.

No, the .elc files are encoded in utf-8 and yet they're read straight
from the file without going through a buffer.


        Stefan