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bug#27748: 26.0.50; doc strings should be in DOC file


From: Lars Ingebrigtsen
Subject: bug#27748: 26.0.50; doc strings should be in DOC file
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 17:00:43 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> writes:

> It's mostly just an optimization thing, so not hugely important (at the
> time, Ken was working on a pure Lisp dumping strategy, so shrinking the
> preloaded code was important for that, but we've gone with the pdumper
> instead).  However, I seem to recall that applying something like this
> will make it possible to solve Bug#4845, because the docstring loading
> mechanism will no longer be reliant on finding "(defun foo" in the .elc
> file.  So that might be nifty.

Hm...  4845 is about leaking uninterned symbols, so that seems
unrelated?

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