GNU bug report logs - #5845
load-library vs. list-load-path-shadows

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 13:37:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>, 5845 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5845: load-library vs. list-load-path-shadows
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 12:25:35 -0500

On 1/16/2018 10:54 AM, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> Should we just use case-insensitive compare for `windows-nt' systems?
> The idea of using "the same heuristics" as `load' sounds nice, but as
> far as I can tell, `load' just queries the file system directly. Doing
> the same in `load-path-shadow-find' is far too slow (raises execution
> time from 0.38s to 5.64s, and that's without any packages adding to
> the load-path).

Would it help to use file-name-case-insensitive-p?

Ken
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