Re: Loading souce Elisp faster

[David Engster]

Eli Zaretskii writes:
>> From: David Engster <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:00:34 +0100
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>
>> 
>> I actually tried that, but it took *longer* with the "coding: utf-8;"
>> comment, which is why I thought that this is apparently not working and
>> some additional changes are needed first.
>> 
>> Here's what I tried: I took files.el from emacs/lisp and copied it to
>> files_utf8.el and added the "coding" comment there. Then I used this:
>> 
>> (setq filename "~/files_utf8.el")
>> (setq final 0)
>> (dotimes (i 1000)
>>   (let ((res
>>       (benchmark-run (find-file filename))))
>>     (setq final (+ final (car res)))
>>     (kill-buffer (find-buffer-visiting filename))))
>> (message "Result: %f" final)
>> 
>> Without the coding-comment, this takes ~7.5s, but *with* the
>> coding-comment it takes ~9.5s.
>
> Try "coding: utf-8-unix;" instead.

This only reduces the time a tiny bit (could well be within
variance). It's still almost 2s slower.

Maybe I'm doing something stupid. I'd feel more comfortable if someone
else could confirm this.

-David