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Re: why keep generated lisp/international/uni-*.el in the repo?


From: Andy Moreton
Subject: Re: why keep generated lisp/international/uni-*.el in the repo?
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 13:20:18 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt)

On Wed 27 Nov 2013, Glenn Morris wrote:

> Why do we keep the generated files lisp/internation/uni-*.el, charprop.el
> in the repo, rather than generating them during bootstrap?
>
> Is it just that "they don't change very often, and it makes bootstrap a
> tiny bit faster"?
>
> On my machine, it takes me ~ 5 seconds to generate them;
> compared to ~ 5 mins for a bootstrap.
> It doesn't seem worth keeping them for that.

If the files only chnage when a new version of Unicode appears, then
keeping things as they are seems far more sensible. Why waste power and
the time of users if this stuff almost never changes ?

On older hardware a boostrap can take considerably longer, so I don't
think this change would be useful.

    AndyM




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