On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 07:25:08PM -0700, Kyle Jones wrote: Some statistics you may find interesting, for a run of xemacs -q in my local configuration (most, but not all, of the packages): auto-autoloads stats : 270 site-start stats : 210 /toolbar stats : 25 /etc stats : 36 package dirs stats : 90 Sucessful auto-autoload.el* stats are systematically followed by a fstat. Some interesting excerpts: stat("/sw/xemacs/install/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/hm--html-menus/auto-autoloads.elc", {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 stat("/sw/xemacs/install/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/hm--html-menus/auto-autoloads.elc", {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 fstat(5, {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 stat("/sw/xemacs/install/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/hm--html-menus/auto-autoloads.elc", {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 fstat(5, {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 stat("/sw/xemacs/install/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/hm--html-menus/auto-autoloads.el", {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 fstat(5, {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 stat("/sw/xemacs/install/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/lisp/site-start.elc", 0xbfffec88) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/sw/xemacs/install/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/lisp/site-start.el", 0xbfffec88) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/sw/xemacs/install/lib/xemacs/mule-packages/lisp/site-start", 0xbfffec88) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) Looks like there is some room for improvement even without affecting flexibility. OG. PS: I don't care much, my xemacs pops up in less than one second, and I use gnuclient anyway.