From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `make' written in elisp
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 22:38:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1ClfWa-0007tC-Ff@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1ClXs5-0002EF-UO@neutrino.iwi.uni-sb.de> (message from Ralf Angeli on Mon, 03 Jan 2005 20:28:05 +0100)
Automatically determining variables specific to the site the package
is being installed at configuration time is a means to cut down load
times. There are things where it is not efficient or feasible to
carry out the respective tests each time the package is loaded.
I am surprised to hear that. Many Emacs Lisp packages search for
files they need to use, and they generally do so either when first
loaded into a session, or each time they are executed. We have never
tried to make any of them save the results between sessions, but it
seems to be fast enough.
Is AUCTeX doing something that is particularly slow?
Besides writing values to init files the configuration process is used
to check if external tools required for building or running the
package are present and provide necessary features. A special case
might be preview-latex which has a TeX part besides the Elisp part.
Why is it necessary to do this?
It seems to me that it would be just fine
to look for these things when the user tries to use them.
to try to use the command when the user asks to do
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-04 3:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-30 19:31 `make' written in elisp Michael Schierl
2003-12-31 22:57 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-31 23:14 ` Michael Schierl
2004-01-01 21:10 ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-01 21:37 ` Michael Schierl
2004-01-04 23:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-02 16:06 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-02 23:22 ` David Kastrup
2005-01-02 23:55 ` Ralf Angeli
2005-01-03 0:07 ` David Kastrup
2005-01-03 0:25 ` Ralf Angeli
2005-01-03 4:32 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-03 8:02 ` David Kastrup
2005-01-03 9:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-01-03 16:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-03 9:10 ` Ralf Angeli
2005-01-03 18:29 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-03 19:28 ` Ralf Angeli
2005-01-03 23:10 ` David Kastrup
2005-01-04 3:38 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2005-01-04 11:17 ` Ralf Angeli
2005-01-03 0:26 ` Stefan
2005-01-03 11:05 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2005-01-03 17:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-04 12:00 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2005-01-04 13:59 ` Stefan
2005-01-04 14:07 ` Miles Bader
2004-03-31 22:31 ` patch for locate-file-completion? Nic Ferrier
2004-04-01 17:34 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] <E1CloEh-0004Sl-Hg@monty-python.gnu.org>
2005-01-04 16:10 ` `make' written in elisp Eric M. Ludlam
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