bug#41646: Startup in Windows is very slow when load-path contains many

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Lin Sun <sunlin7.mail@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:03:16 +0000
> Cc: stefankangas@gmail.com, acorallo@gnu.org, 41646@debbugs.gnu.org, 
> 	monnier@gnu.org
> 
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 3:56 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Lin Sun <sunlin7.mail@gmail.com>
> > >
> > > On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 3:24 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Is it possible to extend filecache.el to cover this use case as well?
> > > > For example, by adding to filecache.el the ability to save the cache,
> > > > and perhaps also the ability to collect the cached files by hooking
> > > > into 'load'?
> > > It's doable but I'm not sure how to maintain the feature-->filepath
> > > maps to cover both file system changes and user preferred exec-path
> > > order, or if it could break the user experience?
> >
> > Sorry, I don't understand: what does exec-path have to do with this?
> > I thought this was about speeding up loading of Lisp files at startup?
> Sorry I mean the `load-path' (not the exec-path), my typo. Thanks

OK, but please elaborate on the difficulty, because I don't think I
understand it.