Re: FW: [External] : Re: Native compilation by default?: Was [Re: stats say SBCL is 78 875 % faster than natively compiled Elisp

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2023 18:29:06 +0000
> 
> > > But you also say "neither does the manual".
> > >
> > > To me, the Emacs manual is (and has long been)
> > > very clear about this.  Node `Lisp Libraries'
> > > goes into it, pointing out explicitly which
> > > files (*.el or *.elc) get loaded (priority)
> > > by `load', `load-library', and `load-file'.
> > 
> > But none of that says anything about explicitly loading FOO.el.
> > 
> > > And that Emacs-manual text points to the more
> > > detailed text in the Elisp manual, node `How
> > > Programs Do Loading'.
> > 
> > Which again says nothing about explicitly loading FOO.el.
> 
> Sorry, but it's not clear to me what you're
> talking about.
> 
> Stefan wrote this:
> 
>  >> If you want to load "the most efficient
>  >> option available", then just don't specify
>  >> any extension, and Emacs will load the
>  >> `.el`, `.elc`, or `.eln` file according to
>  >> what it finds.
> 
> To which I suggested that that be pointed out
> explicitly.  And I parenthetically added that
> this logic has long existed for *.el and *.elc.

That's not what this discussion is about.

> To which you replied that none of the doc
> strings says anything about it [the logic
> behind that behavior].

I wasn't replying to _that_.  I was replying to the main issue being
discussed: that if one specified FOO.elc, Emacs will load FOO.elc and
nothing else.  It will NOT try loading FOO.eln or FOO.el.

> You've apparently (now, for the first time?)
> interjected the fact that the doc that talks
> about the logic behind which files get loaded
> in priority doesn't cover explicitly loading
> FOO.el - or at least that the doc strings
> don't mention that.

That's the only thing being discussed here.  You are missing the main
point of this discussion, and talking about something else entirely.

>  (And the doc makes clear that `M-x load-file
>  FOO.el' or (load-file "FOO.el") loads FOO.el.)

No, it doesn't.