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Re: ELC files inside Emacs releases
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: ELC files inside Emacs releases |
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Sat, 30 May 2020 22:28:39 +0300 |
> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 21:25:59 +0200
> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
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> On Mai 30 2020, Philippe Vaucher wrote:
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> > Maybe that's the right thing, but can someone explain why?
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> ELC files are architecture independent.
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> > In my understanding, those are built when you build Emacs,
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> Users are not expected to do that.
Indeed.
Byte-compiling all the *.el files takes time, so we distribute the
*.elc files to make the build much faster.