Re: Loading souce Elisp faster

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Tue, 26 Feb 2013, Stephen J Turnbull wrote:

> Lennart Borgman writes:
>> The .el8 (and .emacs8) way seems both fast and excluding backward
>> compatibility trouble.

> It's ugly, though.

Not only that, it would also break compatibility with third-party
tools. For example, .el is in the suffix list of Make. Or there's the
elisp-comp script in various packages (also in gnulib, IIRC). Not to
mention installation scripts of distros.

Ulrich