Re: Speeding up Emacs load time

[Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>]

On Sunday, June 30, 2013 8:30:16 PM UTC+5:30, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> Ideally, this works fine. Mostly, it works for smaller libraries you've
> written yourself. But try hacking on something larger (org-mode or, god
> help you, gnus), and it becomes very, very difficult to make sure you've
> cleaned up the run-time. Some vars are read at load time only (so
> re-evaling base vars does nothing), and often you succeed only in
> eval-ing yourself to a non-working environment. Especially if you're
> planning on pushing your changes to some poor unsuspecting group of
> users, you need to start from a clean slate.

I believe its the other way round.
With significant libraries following the require/provide protocol one can somewhat rely on unload-feature.  Its the tiny pieces of code that slips through the cracks