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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes:

> Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk> writes:
>
>> But when I look in my .newsrc.eld, I don't see any trace of byte-code.
>> Is it a bug?
>
> gnus-compile compiles from a string to Lisp code.  Byte-compiling the
> Lisp code would be another step, which is not implemented.

Hmm, are you sure?  The doc-string for `gnus-compile' is

     "Byte-compile the user-defined format specs."

and when I look at the function that seems to be exactly what it does.

I think `gnus-update-format-specifications' is the defun responsible for
converting format strings to Lisp.

But in any case, neither the non-compiled Lisp versions nor the
byte-compiled versions are saved in my .newsrc.eld.