RE: Loading souce Elisp faster

[Drew Adams]

> > So basically, all we need to do is to be able to easily 
> > recognize "Elisp source in utf-8 encoding".  One way to do
> > that would be to use a BOM-like marker, e.g. start utf-8
> > Elisp files with "\ufeff" either at the very beginning of
> > the file or right after a semi-colon (for better
> > backward compatibility).
> 
> We can have "coding: utf-8;" tag at the first line.  Isn't it
> enough?

Thank you.  A voice of reason.

So far, the proposed changes (and the entire discussion) sound like a solution
looking for a problem.

What's the problem with an explicit "coding: utf-8;" declaration?  Isn't it
enough?