Re: Defcustoms, how do users find them?

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

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 3:09 AM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>> So it ends up increasing Emacs's footprint by a bit less than
>>> a megabyte.  It's not the end of the world, but it might be worthwhile
>>> trying to avoid loading this data unless it's really needed.
>> The easiest seems to be to split cus-load.el in two part and only load
>> this extra part in C-h v etc.
>
> I think C-h v, C-h f and very common operations which most of the time
> do not need this info, so I'd like to avoid eating up 1MB just for that.
>
>>> Of course, maybe there's a way to represent the same info
>>> more compactly
>> I doubt it is possible, but I do not understand all the figures.
>> Does it help to erase the data again after C-h v?
>
> Erasing the data after use might be a way around the problem.
> Note that in the form in which you currently store the data (Customize
> symbol properties), it's difficult to unload it.


Maybe load this data only when needed and erase them always afterwards.

What is the problem with erasing the data? It is just a simple loop
erasing it all, or?


> If you additionally split the data (e.g. based on the first letter),
> you'd end up only loading a tenth of the data at a time, which would
> seem a lot more reasonable.


Aren't these data only needed in custom operations? Then just
loading/unloading them seems not be operations that will be very
frequent. They are not more frequent than commands if flag them and
erase them at command level. And a 0.1 seconds delay for certain
commands that either load libraries or are meant as information
commands is not very much.