GNU bug report logs - #59692
29.0.60; Reduce installation size by disabling byte-compilation for some lisp files that won't benefit

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Message #20 received at 59692-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 59692-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, daanturo <daanturo <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#59692: 29.0.60; Reduce installation size by disabling
 byte-compilation for some lisp files that won't benefit
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 17:04:20 -0800

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> FWIW, I consider this to be a waste of our resources and a long-term
> maintenance burden that I cannot justify, even if I accept your conclusions
> (and I'm not at all convinced that they are completely correct, especially
> since you didn't show any measurements of code speed with and without
> byte-compilation).  50 MiB of disk space is too small to justify keeping
> track of all the files, making decisions which will and will not be
> compiled, etc.  Disk space is cheap these days.
>
> So I don't think we should do this.

I agree, so I'm closing this as wontfix.

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