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Re: cus-load.el and loaddefs.el
From: |
Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: cus-load.el and loaddefs.el |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Mar 2002 05:26:23 -0700 (MST) |
Without loaddefs.el, it would be necessary to scan all the .el files
for autoload cookies in order to build Emacs. That is likely to make
a considerable slowdown unless the scanning is done with a very
fast C program. To be reliable, that C program would need to
understand Lisp syntax as well as the Lisp reader does.
I am sure it could be done, but this change would be of no benefit to
users, so couldn't we spend the time doing one of the user-level tasks
in etc/TODO?