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From: abrown@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Allen Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Subdividing .../lisp
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Date: 5 Feb 91 01:21:43 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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> rms@AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman) writes:
>  > This idea would make the directory look cleaner, but it might have a
>  > serious disadvantage, which is to slow down the search for files to
>  > be loaded.

kyle@wendy-fate.uu.net (Kyle Jones) writes:
> This slowdown can be eliminated if we just reorganized the Lisp
> sources and left the byte-compiled code in a directory to itself.
> In fact we should see some speedup since the directory will be
> smaller.

And some libraries could be slowed down without affecting serious uses
of emacs.  I refer to the many games packages.  This should speed up
the other packages.
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