From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ELC files inside Emacs releases Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 22:28:39 +0300 Message-ID: <83lfl9kys8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87367h8bso.fsf@igel.home> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="71582"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 30 21:29:21 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jf7AW-000IU7-BU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 30 May 2020 21:29:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54468 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jf7AV-00046U-DE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 30 May 2020 15:29:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48116) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jf79w-0003gK-6J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 May 2020 15:28:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42980) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jf79v-000159-Fk; Sat, 30 May 2020 15:28:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2236 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jf79u-0000fP-0b; Sat, 30 May 2020 15:28:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87367h8bso.fsf@igel.home> (message from Andreas Schwab on Sat, 30 May 2020 21:25:59 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:251658 Archived-At: > From: Andreas Schwab > Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 21:25:59 +0200 > Cc: Emacs developers > > On Mai 30 2020, Philippe Vaucher wrote: > > > Maybe that's the right thing, but can someone explain why? > > ELC files are architecture independent. > > > In my understanding, those are built when you build Emacs, > > Users are not expected to do that. Indeed. Byte-compiling all the *.el files takes time, so we distribute the *.elc files to make the build much faster.