Re: Loading souce Elisp faster

[Dmitry Gutov]

Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Achim Gratz <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Lennart Borgman writes:
>>> Hm. What is needed to learn old Emacsen to load .el8 files? (Just as
>>> they load .el files.)
>>
>> If they should pick up the new files before the "ordinary" ones:
>>
>> (setq load-suffixes '(".elc" ".el8" ".el"))
>
> Thanks Achim. If the .el8 files contains a "coding" comment too then
> compatibility does not seem to be a problem.

And where will this `setq' instruction reside? In each user's init file?