From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unboxed package manager
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 08:29:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZBquZ6sSC1qZ8QCq@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <838rfq6mi8.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 07:29:51PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 14:20:41 +0000
> > From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
> > cc: owinebar@gmail.com, casouri@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >
> > >> I'm not surprised, but I wonder whether it's possible to do better.
> > >
> > > Yes: load each package with an explicit absolute file name, without
> > > relying on load-path search.
> > >
> >
> > Of course 😉 But by "doing better" I meant "to improve the way Emacs uses
> > load-path in such cases".
>
> Why try to solve a problem if it can be avoided altogether?
>
> > Likely with some kind of cache.
>
> A cache will not necessarily help, and you will pay the price of
> searching it at least once. It should be clear that enlarging the
> length of load-path is not scalable, unless we make it a hash-table of
> sorts. And I'm not sure we want this kind of complexity for such a
> hilariously marginal use case.
I agree 100%. A cache is not free (performance wise, but also, more
importantly bug wise). You'd make the overwhelming majority of users
pay that price for a corner case which, again, in its vast majority
would translate to "well, don't do that, then".
This might change if our landscape changed radically, but: are we
there yet?
Cheers
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-20 1:18 Unboxed package manager Lynn Winebarger
2023-03-20 6:30 ` Yuan Fu
2023-03-20 8:55 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-03-20 9:09 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-03-20 15:25 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-03-20 16:12 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-03-20 16:53 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-03-20 18:11 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2023-03-21 1:40 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-03-22 11:17 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2023-03-22 14:31 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-03-22 23:39 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-03-21 19:06 ` Augusto Stoffel
2023-03-21 19:10 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-03-21 19:57 ` Augusto Stoffel
2023-03-21 20:06 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-03-21 0:23 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-03-21 0:25 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-03-21 1:55 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-03-21 10:36 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-03-21 10:52 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-03-21 13:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-21 13:33 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-03-21 14:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-21 14:20 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-03-21 17:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-22 0:48 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-03-22 14:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-22 22:22 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-03-23 6:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-23 13:30 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-03-24 17:54 ` chad
2023-03-26 1:51 ` Lynn Winebarger
2023-03-23 1:44 ` David Masterson
2023-03-23 7:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-22 7:29 ` tomas [this message]
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