Re: Group based gnus-summary-line-format ?

[Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>]

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> >>>>> "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
> 
> Hrvoje> Unless I am missing something obvious, why is the byte-compiler
> Hrvoje> needed at all?  It is not hard to imagine code that would keep an
> Hrvoje> alist of the byte-compiled formats and look up the appropriate
> Hrvoje> element.  The whole alist could be saved to `.newsrc.eld'.
> 
> Because it is hypothetically possible to have a different value for
> gnus-summary-line-format for every group.

In that hypothetical case you will end up having a large cache.  What
is your point?

> And unless I am missing something obvious, why is it "bad" to invoke
> the byte-compiler

I've never said it was bad to invoke the byte-compiler, but I did
imply that the code should be designed so that its invocation is not
mandatory.

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