From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Loading souce Elisp faster Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:59:31 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1361836836 20845 80.91.229.3 (26 Feb 2013 00:00:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Richard M. Stallman" , Drew Adams , Emacs-Devel devel To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 26 01:00:58 2013 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 1UA7yb-0006wM-S7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:00:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52465 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA7yH-0000yL-1h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:00:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36852) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA7yC-0000y7-82 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:00:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA7yA-0002Qm-6P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:00:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-wi0-f180.google.com ([209.85.212.180]:63365) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA7xy-00027h-HX; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:00:19 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-wi0-f180.google.com with SMTP id hi8so3950195wib.13 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:00:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=bf/0QUXcIDgFn1N9tZA+hUvRtTJhQ80fJVdadrFu7Vg=; b=aCC82zg3S1ATHeAYwnivK/aDNB3nu8/IILNmGQ/oaMyF1nQ1U0K43qbvnZt2V5v8Z6 BRmwwijrAgc625mHM1E4LREd5fvahEltv+CKvJmA/9ht8LB1ve2SpTYtCbqAaXUJExJv ULNmR1ypTq4Nbcctx1TlTrLjq710DPM9aycCkvnfr5w4xdL6b9zM2cAu1ec0wVOG1Uoa DLOAaIb6tCELWYToytPsaRlgptUTWMcRYDDyc8LpYeHDN6Uy4b5lkdKbz6hANcmv3pd9 q4wJ1WmU50v2ajQl+BWAM7fh5efxh460KOXruAbfadzEGhVpVzTiLmwLrTVdw6+LMigS pVyw== X-Received: by 10.180.79.37 with SMTP id g5mr15569861wix.24.1361836801753; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:00:01 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.194.88.226 with HTTP; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:59:31 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.212.180 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:157360 Archived-At: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Lennart Borgman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Stefan Monnier > wrote: >>>>> When is compatibility a problem with this choice? (You can of course >>>>> put a "coding" comment too in the files.) >>>> Older emacsen won't find the .el8 files. >>> Yes, but when will that be a compatibility problem? >> >> When someone wants to write a package that works on older and >> newer Emacsen. > > Aren't packages normally byte compiled? (So using the .el files is no > problem there.) Hm. What is needed to learn old Emacsen to load .el8 files? (Just as they load .el files.)