Re: Async rebuild package-quickstart after packages update? was Re: 28.0.50; Proposal: slightly more efficient package-quickstart.el

[T.V Raman]

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

So looking at package.el:

package-quickstart-refresh is called from
package--quickstart-maybe-refresh and looking at the code in
package-quickstart-refresh, it does not block on user input, so it may
just be sufficient to change the call to package-quickstart-refresh
to (make-thread  #'package-quickstart-refresh) --

Thoughts?

>> One place where we could gain perceptible speedup is when
>> package-quickstart is rebuilt after updating packages; could we make
>> that function asyn?
>
> Yes, that would be a welcome change.
>
>
>         Stefan
>
>
>> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>
>>>>>> Not so much, but it is not so much about noticable difference, more
>>>>>> about not performing unnecessary computation.
>>>> I agree that simplicity and code clarity is important, on many
>>>> levels. But maybe we can have the cake and it it too, as you said 
>>>> for wdired?
>>>
>>> In the case of wdired there was a concrete gain.
>>> Here it's only hypothetical, so the positive motivation is quite different.
>>> Also `package-quickstart` is fairly tricky to troubleshoot (beyond removing
>>> or refreshing the file).  To the end user it's largely a magical button,
>>> so it's really important to make it work reliably.
>>>
>>> IOW the incentives are strongly opposed to your proposition.
>>>
>>>> Last weekend I tested actually myself to restructure how my packages are
>>>> loaded. I noticed that init time increased after I added ~100 packages,
>>>> just for test, and I didn't required anything of that into Emacs. So I
>>>> tested the idea to put all .elc file into a single place and skipp in
>>>> entirety this monstrosity of load-path that results after 200 packages
>>>> are loaded. I got it to work to a degree, it least I got running Emacs,
>>>> native compiler not complaining and most packages loaded, but I also got
>>>> some cyclic dependency, notably for dired and semantic of all things,
>>>> that actually rendered entire session unusable for the most part. I'll
>>>> leave that for another day when I have some more time.
>>>
>>> Moving the .elc files to a separate (short) list of directories indeed
>>> one way we could address the situation where there are too many entries
>>> on `load-path`.
>>>
>>> Another way would be to scan `load-path` "once" and populate
>>> a hash-table from that, after which (load "foo" ...) could be sped up by
>>> looking up "foo" in the hash-table.
>>>
>>> Still, that presumes that finding a file is the main issue, but I don't
>>> know if that would indeed be true.
>>>
>>>> (when (re-search-forward rx-path-beg nil t)
>>>>             (goto-char (line-beginning-position))
>>>>             (setq temp-point (point))
>>>>             (forward-sexp)
>>>>             (when (search-backward file nil t 1)
>>>>               (goto-char temp-point)
>>>>               (kill-sexp)))
>>>
>>> I'd do something like
>>>
>>>     (while (re-search-forward "^(add-to-list" nil t)
>>>       (goto-char (match-beginning 0))
>>>         (let ((start (point))
>>>               (x (read (current-buffer))))
>>>           ...)))
>>>
>>>
>>> -- Stefan
>>>
>>>
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>

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Thanks,

--Raman(I Search, I Find, I Misplace, I Research)
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