Re: `--with-small-ja-dic`

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Is this option still relevant?
> I think it is.  It isn't that old, either; see
>
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-06/msg00122.html
>
> which gave its birth (and the following discussion).

Hmm... OK, so AFAICT the reason to have it as a compile-time option is
that we found no compelling reason to ever use the reduced dictionary,
but we were afraid to make the change without offering some way to get
the old behavior, and the compile-time option was the cheaper way to
get that.

Then I suggest we remove that option altogether.

>> And if is, why is it that it is a compile-time choice rather than
>> a run-time choice?
> Because it's simpler, and also avoids making the build longer and the
> tarball larger.
> Why are you bothered by this, may I ask?

It just seems very odd: when I read the (long) list of `configure`
options, this one really stands out as being "unrelated" to the build.

If the option were `--with-big-ja-dic` I could imagine that we
considered the generated file to be too large for a normal build, but
the other way around doesn't make sense given all the other stuff we
include that any specific user will never use.


        Stefan