Subject: bug#19390: 25.0.50; `package-activate' is too slow

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 03:05:37 +0200

On 12/17/2014 12:00 AM, Artur Malabarba wrote:

> The discussion started here:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-10/msg00567.html
> Oddly enough, I can't find the end of it. =/

Thanks, the part available there already explained the more complex part 
(why sorting).

> The current approach does cover autoloads. The autoloads file of a
> package is always `load'ed when a package is activated (which always
> happens when a package is installed, even after an upgrade). Calling
> `load' on a file which contains a new definition for an already
> defined autoload (which is what happens on upgrades) redefines the
> autoload to the new definition.

I see.