Re: Suggest: Byte-Compile package-quickstart on a separate thread?

[T.V Raman]

I dont think I've seen byte-compile interact with the user, what use
cases does that happen in?



Eli Zaretskii writes:
 > > From: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
 > > Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 10:38:01 -0800
 > > Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
 > > 
 > > "T.V Raman" via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
 > > writes:
 > > Here's a small patch  that uses make-thread:
 > > 
 > > git diff package.el
 > > diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
 > > index bc450b09d0..104c2d8e71 100644
 > > --- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
 > > +++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
 > > @@ -4108,7 +4108,7 @@ package-quickstart-refresh
 > >  ;; no-update-autoloads: t
 > >  ;; End:
 > >  "))
 > > -    (byte-compile-file package-quickstart-file)))
 > > +    (make-thread #'byte-compile-file package-quickstart-file)))
 > 
 > I'm not sure it can be done so easily: byte-compile-file sometimes
 > needs to interact with the user, and that might not work or not do
 > what you expect when run from a separate thread.

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