From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: cus-load.el and loaddefs.el Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 05:26:23 -0700 (MST) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200203221226.g2MCQNp01710@aztec.santafe.edu> References: <200203202027.g2KKRsj10725@hamm.pajato.com> <200203202245.g2KMj9i11141@hamm.pajato.com> <200203210140.g2L1eHD14311@rum.cs.yale.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016800111 8960 127.0.0.1 (22 Mar 2002 12:28:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:28:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: pmr@pajato.com, schwab@suse.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16oO9n-0002KP-00 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 13:28:31 +0100 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16oOGS-0005rz-00 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 13:35:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16oO9g-000461-00; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 07:28:24 -0500 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16oO7k-0003vC-00; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 07:26:24 -0500 Original-Received: from aztec.santafe.edu (aztec [192.12.12.49]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g2MCQNa05804; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 05:26:23 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by aztec.santafe.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) id g2MCQNp01710; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 05:26:23 -0700 (MST) X-Authentication-Warning: aztec.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@aztec using -f Original-To: monnier+gnu/emacs@RUM.cs.yale.edu In-Reply-To: <200203210140.g2L1eHD14311@rum.cs.yale.edu> (monnier+gnu/emacs@RUM.cs.yale.edu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2124 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2124 Without loaddefs.el, it would be necessary to scan all the .el files for autoload cookies in order to build Emacs. That is likely to make a considerable slowdown unless the scanning is done with a very fast C program. To be reliable, that C program would need to understand Lisp syntax as well as the Lisp reader does. I am sure it could be done, but this change would be of no benefit to users, so couldn't we spend the time doing one of the user-level tasks in etc/TODO? _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel