INSTALL from sources

[Michael Sperber]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> 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.

We discussed caching the load-path way back; I really dislike that idea,
and see even more bug reports coming because that cache is out of
synch.  Is there really still that much of a problem?

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
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