RE: bug#30854: 27.0.50; Speeding up package.el startup

[arthur miller]

Only thing it would need to refactor out is the packuage-quickstart variable. It would have to be somewhere where Emacs can find it so it can generate quickstart file if it dies not exists. And if it does not exists it can require package.el and create file, otherwise it is just to proceed with loading the quickstart file?

Is it that simple or I misunderstand something?

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Från: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>

Datum: 2020-12-20 18:16 (GMT+01:00)

Till: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>

Kopia: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org

Ämne: Re: bug#30854: 27.0.50; Speeding up package.el startup

>> Would you be interested in trying to split package.el into the "core
>> part" needed for `package-activate-all` (and which we could then
>> preload), and the rest?
>>
>>
>>         Stefan
> I have arrived to this from slightly different direction: I did some
> optimization as described in Emacs Doom Faq, and just noticed quickstart
> file took some time, and looked and it's contents; so I am not really
> introduced in what package.el does. It will take me some time to get
> into it.
>
> In my own init I do rude directory-files listing to get all directories
> in Elpa directory and I just add those to the path; but packages can be
> installed in different places etc; so I will have to take a look at how it
> is done and what is safe to do/assuem etc.

What I'm proposing doesn't involve any of that: no need to
reimplement anything.
Just look at the existing code and move the relevant parts to
a separate file.


        Stefan