Re: Pre-load time-date.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 14:03:01 -0400
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Since we turn on blink-cursor mode by default, and it requires timers,
> > we now always load time-date.el at startup.  Any reasons not to
> > pre-load it in loadup.el on the emacs-24 branch?
> 
> This is not a new issue, right? It goes back to 24.1?
> And it causes no measurable harm?
> So why the rush to change it at the last minute?

Because I just noticed it now.

> (My fear would be that it somehow causes purespace overflow on some
> platform. Maybe that is totally unfounded?)

We could bump PURESIZE by the same amount as pre-loading this file
requires.