Re: builds are getting slower?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  Glenn Morris <address@hidden>,  
> address@hidden,  emacs-devel <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 14:25:56 +0100
> 
> >> And why exactly this code needs to run when we need to byte-compile
> >> Lisp files, btw?
> >
> > I suspect it's because the byte-compiler is affected by local variables, so
> > it needs to know them.
> 
> Not really.  It loads the files, and loading the files sets the
> directory-local variables.  I don't think it is a good idea to use them
> for byte compilation even though I have to admit that a directory-wide
> setting of `lexical-binding' would seem less ugly than putting it in
> every file manually.  But it sounds like a recipe for trouble.

We can disable that.