RE: bug#30854: 27.0.50; Speeding up package.el startup

[arthur miller]

Yeah, I know, just saying I don't know how package.el does what it does. Will take a peek and look if I understand it.

-------- Originalmeddelande --------

Från: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>

Datum: 2020-12-20 18:16 (GMT+01:00)

Till: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>

Kopia: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org

Ämne: Re: bug#30854: 27.0.50; Speeding up package.el startup

>> Would you be interested in trying to split package.el into the "core
>> part" needed for `package-activate-all` (and which we could then
>> preload), and the rest?
>>
>>
>>         Stefan
> I have arrived to this from slightly different direction: I did some
> optimization as described in Emacs Doom Faq, and just noticed quickstart
> file took some time, and looked and it's contents; so I am not really
> introduced in what package.el does. It will take me some time to get
> into it.
>
> In my own init I do rude directory-files listing to get all directories
> in Elpa directory and I just add those to the path; but packages can be
> installed in different places etc; so I will have to take a look at how it
> is done and what is safe to do/assuem etc.

What I'm proposing doesn't involve any of that: no need to
reimplement anything.
Just look at the existing code and move the relevant parts to
a separate file.


        Stefan