Subject: Re: bug#55972: 28.1; Package quickstart generated for large number of packages generates byte-code string larger than 64K, triggering bytecode overflow error

From: Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2022 12:45:16 +0200

17 juni 2022 kl. 23.27 skrev Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>:

> Indeed, the 64k limit can bite hard in some cases where working around
> it would take a lot of work and we don't have any of the infrastructure
> needed for it.

Right and actually we don't want even to get near that limit because of bad scaling in the compiler.

Stefan, do you agree with the patch (for byte-compile-keep-pending)? I think it's sound but would welcome a second pair of eyes on it.