Question

I’m using some plugins and I byte-compiled my .emacs but the start up still slow. Do I hava to byte-compile my prlugins too? (for instance, yasnippet.el -> yasnippet.elc)?

Answer 1

Byte compiled files load up faster so I’d recommend that you byte compile everything as Pascal suggested. I also keep this in my init file so automatically byte compile all the emacs lisp files I edit and save.

(add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook '(lambda () 
               (add-hook 'after-save-hook 'emacs-lisp-byte-compile t t)))   ;; Automatically byte-compile emacs-lisp files upon save