From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Moreton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: why keep generated lisp/international/uni-*.el in the repo? Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 13:20:18 +0000 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385558447 10211 80.91.229.3 (27 Nov 2013 13:20:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 13:20:47 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 27 14:20:51 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vlf2x-00018B-7c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 14:20:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35862 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vlf2w-0006GP-Pi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 08:20:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33235) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vlf2m-00069w-Dw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 08:20:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vlf2e-0005Y0-Nh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 08:20:40 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55811) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vlf2e-0005Xr-Gq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 08:20:32 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vlf2d-0000uN-Ae for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 14:20:31 +0100 Original-Received: from uk.solarflare.com ([193.34.186.16]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 14:20:31 +0100 Original-Received: from andrewjmoreton by uk.solarflare.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 14:20:31 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: uk.solarflare.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FsT3efaWzVIIEiNGsJgKNqJAP8Q= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:165801 Archived-At: On Wed 27 Nov 2013, Glenn Morris wrote: > Why do we keep the generated files lisp/internation/uni-*.el, charprop.el > in the repo, rather than generating them during bootstrap? > > Is it just that "they don't change very often, and it makes bootstrap a > tiny bit faster"? > > On my machine, it takes me ~ 5 seconds to generate them; > compared to ~ 5 mins for a bootstrap. > It doesn't seem worth keeping them for that. If the files only chnage when a new version of Unicode appears, then keeping things as they are seems far more sensible. Why waste power and the time of users if this stuff almost never changes ? On older hardware a boostrap can take considerably longer, so I don't think this change would be useful. AndyM