[slime-devel] Question about decoupling load-server and start-server in slime-init-command

Hi,

I have a slow system where launching slime (current CVS version) takes several seconds. Wishing to cut down the initialization time, I dumped a sbcl core with swank preloaded but slime didn't start faster because swank was being reloaded. To avoid this, I modified slime-init-command and now slime starts lightning fast.

There's a comment before slime-init-command saying:

;; XXX load-server & start-server used to be separated. maybe that was better.

Why were the two functionalities merged? I definitely think it was better. Perhaps I missed an obvious way to achieve the same goal?

Thanks,