Subject: Re: bug#64712: 29.0.92; Emacs 29 with native compilation compiles cl-loaddefs.el on every startup

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 08:43:44 +0300

> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 04:50:21 +0300
> Cc: [email-masked]
> From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
> 
> On 18/07/2023 19:34, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > This is normal: cl-loaddefs.el has no-byte-compile:t , so the async
> > compilation does nothing.
> > 
> > This is harmless, and not a bug.
> 
> Reading the file, extracting it from an archive, to ultimately do 
> nothing, seems unfortunate. I'm guessing it can add a certain latency to 
> Emacs's startup.

What do you suggest we do instead?  Emacs cannot know a file should
not be compiled without reading its contents first.