Re: Preload encoded-kb on MS-Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 12:55:16 +0900
> 
> In article <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> From: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>
> >> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
> >> Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 10:20:38 +0900
> >> 
> >> It seems that you actually meant keyboard-coding-system (not
> >> terminal-coding-system).  But, on Unix, encoded-kb is not
> >> loaded when you run Emacs on X.
> 
> > Do you agree that on MS-Windows encoded-kb should be preloaded?
> 
> I agree if it is the policy to preload everything that is
> always loaded at startup time.

I thought this was the policy, because it makes Emacs start faster.
Richard, is it true that this is the policy?

> But, as a developper, I see a merit in not preloading such
> files because then the debugging/testing of them gets a
> little bit easier (we don't have to dump Emacs).

Well, we have gobs of files preloaded already, so one more won't hurt
too much, I think.  But I'll defer to Richard's decision.