Subject: Re: bug#57627: 29.0.50; [native-compilation] cl-loaddefs.el recompiled on startup

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2022 15:10:49 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> In general, if you let Emacs native-compile everything it loads at
> startup, the next startup it will not need to compile anything, since
> the *.eln files are already available.

The loaddefs files aren't compiled, since they have a cookie stopping
that from happening.  So no .eln file is made.

> OTOH, I don't see a problem in Emacs starting an async compilation
> that ends up not compiling anything.  It runs in the background, so I
> don't think it interferes with anything?

It's inefficient and confusing.