Jeff Miller <jmiller(a)smart.net&gt; writes: Hrvoje> It doesn't appear to help -- I still get about the same number of Hrvoje> stats. Yes, but in the lisp load-path directory reorganization the dummy site-start.el and default.el lost any positive effect. They've been removed from the most recent XEmacs betas. One can get the most benefit by putting dummy versions of these files (from biggest speedup to least speedup): ~/.xemacs/lisp/ [...]/mule-packages/lisp/ [If you use XEmacs/Mule] [...]/xemacs-packages/lisp/