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

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Eli.

On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 10:42:05 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2023 01:21:16 -0400

> > Which of the cl- macros really generate calls that require cl-lib
> > to be loaded?

> I don't think there are any.

> > We should fix those.

> If they exist, yes.

Just as a matter of interest, what loads cl-lib in my .emacs is
desktop.el.  It does this for a single call to cl-list* which could be
seen as rather contrived.

So any Emacs session loading desktop will also be loading cl-lib; that's
virtually any Emacs session in which real work will be getting done, I
think.

It would be fairly easy to remove cl-lib from desktop.el.  Or, on the
other hand, we could just as well preload cl-lib, and save an
unmeasurable amount of loading time at each Emacs startup.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).