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Re: Suggest: Byte-Compile package-quickstart on a separate thread?
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T.V Raman |
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Re: Suggest: Byte-Compile package-quickstart on a separate thread? |
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Mon, 28 Dec 2020 11:52:10 -0800 |
I dont think I've seen byte-compile interact with the user, what use
cases does that happen in?
Eli Zaretskii writes:
> > From: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
> > Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 10:38:01 -0800
> > Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
> >
> > "T.V Raman" via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> > writes:
> > Here's a small patch that uses make-thread:
> >
> > git diff package.el
> > diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
> > index bc450b09d0..104c2d8e71 100644
> > --- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
> > +++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
> > @@ -4108,7 +4108,7 @@ package-quickstart-refresh
> > ;; no-update-autoloads: t
> > ;; End:
> > "))
> > - (byte-compile-file package-quickstart-file)))
> > + (make-thread #'byte-compile-file package-quickstart-file)))
>
> I'm not sure it can be done so easily: byte-compile-file sometimes
> needs to interact with the user, and that might not work or not do
> what you expect when run from a separate thread.
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