Re: Half-compiled, slow gnus-cus.elc

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> writes:

> gnus-cus.el uses backquote in (calculate ...) forms, which are not
> compiled.  Backquote is pretty slow; it must first compute the form to
> be executed and then execute it.

Yup.  However, the gnus-cus thingie is only evaluated once (when Gnus
is loaded), so I don't think putting much work into optimizing it is
all that useful.  In any case, Per has written the documentation to a
*much* nicer new version of custom, and I any work done to custom.el
as it stands now will probably be a waste -- the new custom will
probably share very little of the internals with the old custom.  I
think. 

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