Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 2017-04-04 11:53, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden> Date: Tue, 4 Apr
>> 2017 11:16:35 -0400 Cc: address@hidden
>> 
>> One of them is fixed, the second seems seems to be mostly wontfix,
>> and the third is open.  But all three are relevant when trying to
>> remain compatible with older Emacsen.
> 
> So there's only one bug that remains, is that right?
> 
> As for older versions, you could fix them by retrofitting the
> patches into them, right?

Correct. When the patches are in Lisp, yes, to some extent.  In C, no, of 
course.

> And in any case, they seem to be unrelated to the issue at hand,
> which will only affect the next release and those after it.  Right?

Correct. I sought to point out that, since old version prevent some authors 
from using emacsclient, emacsclient being fast does mitigate much of the costs 
of Emacs itself starting slowly.