Subject: Re: "obsolete" are too early in load-path

From: Dan Nicolaescu <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:07:21 -0700 (PDT)

Chong Yidong <[email-masked]> writes:

  > > "obsolete" should be just about at the end of the list, it's not
  > > exactly where popular files reside...
  > 
  > startup.el sets the load patch in reverse alphabetical order.  Does it
  > matter in practice?

For each file loaded there might be 6 extra stat system calls.