Re: image-load-path/load-path function

[Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> wrote:

> >> If this seems OK to everyone, I'll make *-image-directory a local
> >> variable within *-image-load-path.
> 
> A _minor_ disadvantage is that the library&image search will be
> performed on each call of the function `*-image-load-path'.

Ah, now I see why you removed *-image-load-path-called: you were using
*-image-directory for that purpose.

If the global were preserved in image.el, I think it would have to be an
alist mapping LIBRARY to the related image directory. Maybe this would
be more complication than needed since it would only save a call to
locate-library and file-exists-p. If calls to *-image-load-path are not
in a tight loop--indeed, in MH-E it is only called twice--I'm thinking
that we might not worry unless it becomes a problem. Would that be the
consensus?

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