From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `--with-small-ja-dic` Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 18:34:16 +0200 Message-ID: <868r3lwut3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86zfw2w7e8.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25112"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 15 17:35:07 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1raehW-0006F6-3H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:35:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1raegq-0006ef-B5; Thu, 15 Feb 2024 11:34:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1raegl-0006eI-CO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2024 11:34:19 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1raegl-0000oL-3Y; Thu, 15 Feb 2024 11:34:19 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=g8uY4yGTSdM5dQG1d0UVWgnREnZXd0rDSf/aPYOgSmk=; b=m5PKFtHx1AYu ZPZcDVz9GvM9KfkyaO8NNhDxgHxSWNTkfh1Dm7ua/XxVHPiCHEfNi1zQ69qRmy491o8IJSu7vCWL1 NCevNndit/zmty/pOknS8k6Het3EGKiAMcu1Lws4LY2h+EcEIQaKn3qXAnNVwm+1JuZsKGLIeLW/g ZvKIOAJQ/Dkltmiqt2BnVTGkDXvwtnO1/lGGYfQem6upfVZAVAoY1KDQHDW4JD1/rXd+E0gPP2b/W X2+7d79Vx6oWS8pXlHzrx3dxlHQkOTk9BL3O+mpHeziAx14VsJxbBt5g5PpKCFyxnWsbBwzworN1r NNluqww6XY514keZBRRGbA==; In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 15 Feb 2024 09:13:19 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:316235 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 09:13:19 -0500 > > >> Is this option still relevant? > > I think it is. It isn't that old, either; see > > > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-06/msg00122.html > > > > which gave its birth (and the following discussion). > > Hmm... OK, so AFAICT the reason to have it as a compile-time option is > that we found no compelling reason to ever use the reduced dictionary, > but we were afraid to make the change without offering some way to get > the old behavior, and the compile-time option was the cheaper way to > get that. > > Then I suggest we remove that option altogether. We probably will, at some point. But not yet: it was only added in Emacs 29. > >> And if is, why is it that it is a compile-time choice rather than > >> a run-time choice? > > Because it's simpler, and also avoids making the build longer and the > > tarball larger. > > Why are you bothered by this, may I ask? > > It just seems very odd: when I read the (long) list of `configure` > options, this one really stands out as being "unrelated" to the build. > > If the option were `--with-big-ja-dic` I could imagine that we > considered the generated file to be too large for a normal build, but > the other way around doesn't make sense given all the other stuff we > include that any specific user will never use. I hope it does make sense now that you have read the above thread.