Subject: bug#63513: [PATCH] Make persist-defvar work with records and hash tables

From: Ihor Radchenko <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2023 12:51:41 +0000

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> > Why do we need them in subr.el, i.e. preloaded?  Why cannot these
>> > functions be autoloaded instead?
>> 
>> Similar functions - `string-equal-ignore-case' and `copy-tree' - are
>> already in subr.el. I do not see why the new functions discussed here
>> should be any different.
>
> We make the decision whether a function must be preloaded in a case by
> case basis, to avoid making the memory footprint of an Emacs session
> larger than it needs to be.  So arguments "by similarity" are not
> useful in this case; you need to explain why you think these functions
> are needed right from the startup.
> ...

Got it. Then, I do not insist on subr.el specifically. Autoloading is
fine.

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