Re: Loading souce Elisp faster

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Lennart Borgman
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Stefan Monnier
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>> When is compatibility a problem with this choice? (You can of course
>>>>> put a "coding" comment too in the files.)
>>>> Older emacsen won't find the .el8 files.
>>> Yes, but when will that be a compatibility problem?
>>
>> When someone wants to write a package that works on older and
>> newer Emacsen.
>
> Aren't packages normally byte compiled? (So using the .el files is no
> problem there.)

Hm. What is needed to learn old Emacsen to load .el8 files? (Just as
they load .el files.)