INSTALL from sources

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Michael Sperber writes:

 > > Also, it would be nice if the stat'ing of the load-path could be
 > > optimized further (David Kastrup offered a couple of ideas way back
 > > when).
 > 
 > Do you have a pointer?  Back then, I did quite a bit of work on that
 > aspect, and I couldn't any way to do with less.

Not offhand, I'll try to dig it up.

IIRC, the main idea was to have an enhanced auto-autoloads in
.../xemacs-packages that would serve to fix up load-path as well, thus
avoiding all the stat'ing down into the tree.