Re: Recursive compilation?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> I'm personally using a different hack which doesn't solve all those
> problems either but is simple and doesn't suffer from as many problems
> in my experience: prefer loading the .el file if it's more recent.

I was thinking that perhaps if file a.el requires a macro from b.el, and
b.el isn't compiled, then a.elc would end up in a somewhat less compiled
state than it otherwise would?

But if that's not the case, then perhaps `require', when run via
`byte-compile-file', should just always load the .el file if it's more
recent?  That certainly sounds easy enough to implement --
`byte-compile-file' could just bind a variable to signal that it wanted
this behaviour.

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