Hrvoje> Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch&gt; writes: Hrvoje> So did I, but this appears not to be the case. Ermh, out here XEmacs started up *vastly* faster after limiting recursion depth. If it's still not fast enough, it's a different issue. If limiting `packages-hierarchy-depth' didn't improve things, the problem will not be taken care of by forbidding *.el and *.elc anyway, because recursion simply doesn't progress to that level. I'll look into it. Note that---because of the smarter startup code and the package searching---there *must* be more stats than in 20.4. -- Cheers =8-} Chipsy Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla