Re: Lisp files that load cl-lib in problematical ways

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> Cc: stefankangas@gmail.com, gregory@heytings.org, rms@gnu.org,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 13:01:45 +0000
> 
> > These are bugs we still need to find and fix.  But adding arbitrary
> > Lisp packages to loadup.el is also likely to cause bugs, since
> > dumping Emacs is a tricky business in any case.
> 
> That's my point. If we can carefully select built-in packages that can
> be safely dumped, we can generate Emacs executable tailored for user
> configs.
> 
> For example, imaginary M-x dump-emacs-portable-interactively might check
> the loaded features, filter them according to built-in libraries known
> to be safe for dumping, and generate Emacs image that will pre-load
> these libraries. This way, Emacs startup time will be reduced while not
> adding unnecessary bloat, with "unnecessary" defined by the user config
> rather than general considerations that must apply to every possible
> Emacs user.

Feel free to work on such a feature, I'm sure some will like it,
especially people who for some reason start Emacs frequently.  It's a
lot of non-trivial work, though.