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: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:20:15 +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 1361820075 20476 80.91.229.3 (25 Feb 2013 19:21:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:21:15 +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 Mon Feb 25 20:21:37 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 1UA3cE-0006Re-At for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:21:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34921 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA3br-0007ZV-01 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:21:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47271) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA3bg-0007QL-Js for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:21:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA3ba-0002zP-Vl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:21:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-we0-x234.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c03::234]:39445) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA3bT-0002w0-0g; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:20:47 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-we0-f180.google.com with SMTP id k14so2725224wer.39 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:20:45 -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=CNq1asVSJHwlvbNlaAeKSDtsESUnOJvSGsN8ykFt8XI=; b=wKiGOq1FyMnzaxvq4gMek8ZlW0aAL42fnXclGcXpGNp/Sohqb2WPGhfubNRKwopDH/ F5m49OgJW2CGPjDauX8J9Ar1Tb01jXJMdC2cZYXfSWimBE36xu1usGZdzC9rfW7+Dkt0 UwYelcFvbko4tPNPNl42hkP807tybYQJDQo1gb5Rl/DLktQgpeQufmgFk6Za5HNeNDHV xmvlepjHZX2+ZSrDYI+H4eLMBFIImD1WFg0O7h21/m6zYnEnFP3sKJ5VB7+BkpC6y+7X oDqToQj48XCn3sRXvpmQcfhfovnkReorx2+gi3HLSwyBGlVsg9pxjJ1XNkD+KOy9YdTe Kyxg== X-Received: by 10.194.120.169 with SMTP id ld9mr21459141wjb.24.1361820045925; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:20:45 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.194.88.226 with HTTP; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:20:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c03::234 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:157335 Archived-At: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> The .el8 (and .emacs8) way seems both fast and excluding backward >> compatibility trouble. > > We need to worry about both backward and forward compatibility, so this > choice is rather undesirable. When is compatibility a problem with this choice? (You can of course put a "coding" comment too in the files.)