Re: Loading souce Elisp faster

[Stefan Monnier]

>     In any case, this is not relevant to the question at hand, which aims to
>     completely side-step find-file when `load'ing a (utf-8) .el file.
> Since decoding utf-8 is not in general trivial, that's not a trivial
> thing to do.  On the other hand, if the default encoding were
> utf-8-emacs, that would make it trivial.  Maybe in that case
> it would be possible to just read the file.

Yes, that's what this discussion is about: use the same fast-path as is
used for .elc files.


        Stefan


PS: AFAIK, even if it's utf-8-unix, we can read it as utf-8-emacs and
have the right answer.