Re: Deferring native compilation finalization until idle

Stefan Monnier via "Emacs development discussions." <[email protected]> Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:30:36 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> TBH, I don't understand why that validation is needed for *.eln files.
> Those are compiled on your machine, so what validation is necessary?
> It's not like you download unknown binaries from somewhere.

Most likely it's because the OS doesn't keep track of provenance.
It doesn't know that the `el` files should be considered as "blessed"
and that the `.eln` files are compiled versions of the `.el` files.

Does macOS even realize that it should also worry about security
issues in the `.el` or `.elc` files?


=== Stefan