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diff --git a/doc/lispref/compile.texi b/doc/lispref/compile.texi index 311b6f5b3fb..e979fda41eb 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/compile.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/compile.texi @@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ function is called, it reads the full definition from the file, to replace the place-holder. The advantage of dynamic function loading is that loading the file -becomes much faster. This is a good thing for a file which contains +should become faster. This is a good thing for a file which contains many separate user-callable functions, if using one of them does not imply you will probably also use the rest. A specialized mode which provides many keyboard commands often has that usage pattern: a user may @@ -326,6 +326,10 @@ installed Emacs files. But they are quite likely to happen with Lisp files that you are changing. The easiest way to prevent these problems is to reload the new compiled file immediately after each recompilation. + @emph{Experience shows that using dynamic function loading provides +benefits that are hardly measurable, so this feature is deprecated +since Emacs 27.1.} + The byte compiler uses the dynamic function loading feature if the variable @code{byte-compile-dynamic} is non-@code{nil} at compilation time. Do not set this variable globally, since dynamic loading is |