Subject: Re: bug#26459: 26.0.50; loaddefs.el is regenerated after each "git pull"

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 19:03:47 +0300

> From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 11:58:27 -0400
> 
> 
> IIUC 440bafe has made this much slower by defeating the prior "only
> update where needed" aspect of this.

440bafe made the rule generate the loaddefs in a temporary file.
Would it help to copy loaddefs.el into loaddefs.tmp before running
batch-update-autoloads?

Still, I don't see why the time stamp of loaddefs.el should be
ignored.