From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#66946: 30.0.50; Elisp manual section 17.4 describes an obsolete variable Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2023 06:23:59 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87pm0o5yo2.fsf@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16146"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Stefan Monnier To: Ihor Radchenko , 66946@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 05 15:24:37 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qze3I-0003wJ-U8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 05 Nov 2023 15:24:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qze38-0002mC-I1; 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Sun, 05 Nov 2023 06:24:00 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from 753933720722 named unknown by gmailapi.google.com with HTTPREST; Sun, 5 Nov 2023 06:23:59 -0800 In-Reply-To: <87pm0o5yo2.fsf@localhost> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:273825 Archived-At: Ihor Radchenko writes: > In Elisp manual, "17.4 Dynamic Loading of Individual Functions" > describes `byte-compile-dynamic' variable. > > However, according to the docstring, this variable is no longer useful > > byte-compile-dynamic is a variable defined in bytecomp.el. > > This variable is obsolete since 27.1; not worthwhile any more. > > Value > nil > > It looks like the corresponding section of the manual is now obsolete > and should probably be removed. The manual says: _Experience shows that using dynamic function loading provides benefits that are hardly measurable, so this feature is deprecated since Emacs 27.1._ Stefan M, any comments here? Is it time to actually mark this stuff obsolete?