Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file

[Clément Pit--Claudel]

On 2016-12-16 09:39, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> From: Clément Pit--Claudel <address@hidden>
>> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 09:28:37 -0500
>>
>>> Autoloading should fix that.  This idea won't work anyway without
>>> adding the relevant symbols to loaddefs.el.
>>
>> Indeed; but then we need to autoload all functions in these files, right?
> 
> Not sure about "all", but most of them, yes.  And variables.
> 
>> Also, does autoloading work for macros?
> 
> It doesn't, but why would macros be a problem?  They need to be seen
> by the byte compiler when it compiles the package, not when the
> package is loaded.

Right; but won't we have a problem when package.el compiles newly downloaded 
packages that depend on formerly autoloaded libraries?

Clément.

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