Re: [Bug: 21.5-b27] describe-function shows build-time file locations

Ron Isaacson writes: Yes. It turns loading the minimal Lisp files from a 5 minute exercise on a 1GHz Mac to a 5 second startup. Most Lisp environments have some similar mechanism. For ordinary use for Unix users, an XEmacs process may live for many weeks, and it's no big deal. For many Windows users, rebooting daily (or more frequently) it's a noticable annoyance. For a developer working on the "core Lisp" it can be a very big deal. While it's theoretically possible to "unload" a library, after you've spent a few minutes testing, things tend to get very intertwingled, and a restart is necessary to guarantee you have a clean environment. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta