Re: Loading souce Elisp faster

[Richard Stallman]

    Since Emacs now uses utf-8 based encoding internally, conversion from
    utf-8 is a no-op (except for the EOL conversion).

I don't think that is true.  The Emacs internal encoding is not
identical to Unicode, and conversion to or from utf-8 is not a no-op.

Maybe it is a no-op for coding system utf-8-emacs, but I won't swear to
that without its being checked.

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