Re: Loading souce Elisp faster

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> wrote:
>>> Lennart Borgman writes:
>>>> Hm. What is needed to learn old Emacsen to load .el8 files? (Just as
>>>> they load .el files.)
>>>
>>> If they should pick up the new files before the "ordinary" ones:
>>>
>>> (setq load-suffixes '(".elc" ".el8" ".el"))
>>
>> Thanks Achim. If the .el8 files contains a "coding" comment too then
>> compatibility does not seem to be a problem.
>
> And where will this `setq' instruction reside? In each user's init file?

Somewhere... ;-)
Stefan gave as an example packages written to be used by both new and
old Emacsen. It should be possible to handle it in the package or the
package handler.