Re: native-comp write path?

[Yuri D'Elia]

On Sat, Feb 12 2022, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> The *.eln files don't need to be updated as long as you don't modify
> the corresponding *.el files.  This means that, for an Emacs built and
> installed using the default procedure, the eln-cache will quickly fill
> up with compiled *.el files from the Emacs distribution that you
> frequently use.  If those *.eln files are removed, Emacs will
> recompile them upon next startup, which might take a few minutes
> during which Emacs will be more sluggish than usually (because JIT
> native compilation by default uses half of the system's execution
> units).
>
> If you don't care about this, maybe it's okay to move the *.eln files
> to the XDG cache.  But you need to understand the affects of this.

I was fully aware of this.

In my case, ~/.cache is excluded from backups, however I'm not using any
DE, so nobody is going to remove that automatically. It makes perfect
sense for me to move it there instead of adding another exclusion.

I wonder which DE and/or environment deletes ~/.cache?