From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Silent autoloading
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 10:04:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4p2h6ivm.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <je4p2hkv7x.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:13:54 +0100")
>> I agree with the basic premise, but I'm wondering what's the
>> relationship: what kind of machine are you using where loading a .elc
>> file is not virtually instantaneous?
> Loading a .elc can take arbitrary time since it can contain arbitrary
> code.
Yes, that's the difference between theory and practice.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-09 15:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-08 12:30 Silent autoloading Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-08 21:34 ` Glenn Morris
2008-11-08 22:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-09 2:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-09 4:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-09 15:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-09 18:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-10 1:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-10 8:37 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-11-10 20:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-10 20:19 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-11-11 4:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-10 22:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-16 14:34 ` Michael Albinus
2008-11-16 19:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-09 11:13 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-11-09 15:04 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-11-17 5:01 ` Michael Albinus
2008-11-17 14:46 ` Stefan Monnier
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