From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Loading souce Elisp faster Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:57:28 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1361829489 18444 80.91.229.3 (25 Feb 2013 21:58:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:58:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Richard M. Stallman" , Drew Adams , Emacs-Devel devel To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 25 22:58:32 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UA646-0006WX-FL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:58:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54171 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA63l-0006Ex-HF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:58:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37371) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA63i-0006Eg-JC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:58:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA63h-0001jS-I4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:58:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-wi0-x22a.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c05::22a]:41281) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA63b-0001iL-Tg; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:58:00 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-wi0-f170.google.com with SMTP id hm11so5283885wib.3 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:57:59 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=OpUzZbpu/sN8ZJJcvCfI3UDi/BxcrvO/7jrKUSffnmw=; b=bnYlMu6Eg1Q4RSXiPtS0Ea8mHPOtcHcVUG9PbLxkAMf/Sue1n72Db+nqy2rrw20ZL1 DH30cvB5S52CLzeRihcg5gJHEI+N5nvlqwm+gSL50eOkBJYi7zSHrzM7AbSqXAdIEjLA tfLHqaJplMUoDNC2JsjzVjFQatB0YW8/0GWzSpUo51AejesUjZlykosRoCzyR+ClAka2 iO4F8zT1OaZIuHJU/ZTESaonBczjK1Z98615elKLmYnCQOAevhioTNupNfppyyjStTb9 y8LOhW/xHCdZ4tMwANPn3T8vg2K6VdKL4MW8sZVQfN5uQuUe3g0YcCGbq4PO3OCU6rCE rWnw== X-Received: by 10.180.79.227 with SMTP id m3mr15207080wix.12.1361829479033; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:57:59 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.194.88.226 with HTTP; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:57:28 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c05::22a X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:157351 Archived-At: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>>> When is compatibility a problem with this choice? (You can of course >>>> put a "coding" comment too in the files.) >>> Older emacsen won't find the .el8 files. >> Yes, but when will that be a compatibility problem? > > When someone wants to write a package that works on older and > newer Emacsen. Aren't packages normally byte compiled? (So using the .el files is no problem there.)