Re: Loading souce Elisp faster

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:56:22 -0500
> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
>     A very rough estimate through 'benchmark-run' indicates that
>     `find-file-literally' is indeed about 10x faster than
>     `find-file'.
> 
> find-file-literally avoids DOING the code conversion.  However, even
> if we use utf-8 as the default, or unconditionally, conversion would
> still need to be done.

Since Emacs now uses utf-8 based encoding internally, conversion from
utf-8 is a no-op (except for the EOL conversion).