Re: *-loaddefs.el files are not byte-compiled after being regenerated

[Stefan Monnier]

Lars Ingebrigtsen [2022-08-05 00:26:29] wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> Why do we compile those?  I thought we only wanted to compile
>> `lisp/loaddefs.el`.
>
> To make
>
> ;;;###foo-autoload
> (progn
>   (defun foo ()
>     (here's a big bunch of code)))
>
> byte-compiled.

Ah, I thought the change was only about the handling of docstrings for
`etc/DOC`, but indeed there are other benefits to byte-compiling
loaddefs files.  Not sure they're important enough, tho (we still don't
compile ELPA packages's autoloads, IIUC).


        Stefan