Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de> writes: > Bastien writes: >> (load "org-loaddefs.el" t t t) will *not* load gzipped version of >> org-loaddefs.el. > > That's what I was trying to tell you and I consider that a bug.
I don't. >> Please point at one distribution that actually distributes gzipped >> autoloads files like loaddefs.el. > > Why should I? Please do send a link to a loaddefs.el.gz anywhere on the web or anywhere in an Emacs package or provide a way to install Emacs which generates loaddefs.el.gz. > It is not at all illegal to do this, so we shouldn't be putting out code > that actively prevents this option. That Emacs currently doesn't do > this has different reasons and looking at the code Emacs uses makes it > abundantly clear that they've gone to great lengths to enable this for > all files. Currently it usually is faster to read non-compressed files > from disk if they aren't larger than a single allocation unit of the > underlying file system (which is why the files Emacs uses most often, > that is .elc files and autoloads are kept uncompressed), but there are > situations were there is a clear advantage of using compression and > there are also situations where compressing _all_ files is the only > thing left to do. If you want to fix Emacs with respect to allowing loaddefs.el and org-loaddefs.el compression, please do. -- Bastien
