GNU bug report logs - #64712
29.0.92; Emacs 29 with native compilation compiles cl-loaddefs.el on every startup

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stephen Molitor <stephen.molitor <at> icloud.com>

Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 16:19:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug, wontfix

Found in version 29.0.92

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
Cc: stephen.molitor <at> icloud.com, 64712 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64712: 29.0.92; Emacs 29 with native compilation compiles cl-loaddefs.el on every startup
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 08:43:44 +0300

> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 04:50:21 +0300
> Cc: 64712 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
> 
> 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.
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