Subject: Re: bug#36681: Feature Request: Option to build Emacs without byte-compilation.

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 19:13:21 -0400

Richard Stallman <[email-masked]> writes:

> We used to distribute the compiled Lisp files, which made installation
> much faster.  They were removed a few years ago

I don't think that's the case, compiled .elc files are still in the
latest tarball releases.  They're not version controlled, so people
tracking development with git do have to compile the Lisp files.