Re: messages override minibuffer input

[Richard Stallman]

    Really?  `require' happens during the loading of some other package, so
    its delay is absorbed in the overall pause.  But autoloading an
    arbitrarily complicated package (hi Alan! :) during a stream of user input
    can look like a hang.

Nowadays it usually does not take very long.  For instance, visiting a
C file for the first time loads several Lisp files, and it takes less
than a second.  I don't think this needs to display messages.

Once upon a time, when GC could take a few seconds, GC displayed
messages too.  But when computers got faster, and GC took less time,
eventually the messages were more trouble than they were worth.
So I turned them off.

I don't want to implement anything complex in this area.