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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 08:19:51 +0100

On July 17, 2019 12:13:21 AM GMT+01:00, Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 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.

I think Richard meant that in the past we kept *.elc files in the repository.