Re: package.el should be preloaded

[Chong Yidong]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> That's really strange.  The code needed at startup shouldn't need to be
> that large.  Of course, that was part of the reason why I want(ed) all
> the job of finding which packages to load in which order to be done
> "offline" rather than at startup.

The total length of package.el is 1642 lines.  Of these, the code
necessary to load and activate packages at startup comes to around 590
lines, or about 16k of memory in the .elc.  (The rest is the code for
downloading and installing, and for the package menu.)

Splitting package.el is certainly doable, but all it will save us is
around 30k.  I'm not sure it's worth it.