From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Pre-load time-date.el Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 14:03:01 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83ppds2c7l.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413482599 25186 80.91.229.3 (16 Oct 2014 18:03:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 18:03:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 16 20:03:12 2014 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 1XepOF-0003Cc-7j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 20:03:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51758 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XepOE-0002Z1-ME for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 14:03:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60757) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XepOB-0002Yq-H0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 14:03:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XepOA-0005uE-PS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 14:03:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35730) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XepOA-0005uA-Mx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 14:03:02 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XepOA-0006Lb-4T; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 14:03:02 -0400 X-Spook: freedom Albanian high security Montenegro Aldergrove X-Ran: +n:x>PyTx~p!su!r"^|iw!^HT|>lEosRE1i^4T4JD.Fs^3GIu0TBMZsINyRaReYgh0f&It X-Hue: green X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <83ppds2c7l.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 16 Oct 2014 19:47:42 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:175474 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Since we turn on blink-cursor mode by default, and it requires timers, > we now always load time-date.el at startup. Any reasons not to > pre-load it in loadup.el on the emacs-24 branch? This is not a new issue, right? It goes back to 24.1? And it causes no measurable harm? So why the rush to change it at the last minute? (My fear would be that it somehow causes purespace overflow on some platform. Maybe that is totally unfounded?)