Re: package system: questions, suggestions, alien

David> Won't that tend to vastly increase the size of load-path David> (etc.) and, thus, slow down finding things? Actually, it will be exactly the same size. One of the things that slows down XEmacs startup is that we walk the Lisp hierarchies, and eliminate anything from load-path that does not contain Lisp. This actually is costless, because besides looking for flowers, we also collect autoloads. The autoloads are absolute paths, so very fast. There is a further optimization that has been proposed, which is to collect the autoloads into a single library found in a fixed place. But the gains to that are small unless you restart XEmacs a lot, which is deprecated practice anyway. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py