From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#66946: 30.0.50; Elisp manual section 17.4 describes an obsolete variable Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2023 18:24:13 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87pm0o5yo2.fsf@localhost> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11431"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cc: 66946@debbugs.gnu.org, Ihor Radchenko To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 06 00:24:46 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 1qzmU1-0002n2-Vp for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Sun, 5 Nov 2023 18:24:14 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from pastel (unknown [45.72.195.71]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 30885120201; Sun, 5 Nov 2023 18:24:14 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Kangas's message of "Sun, 5 Nov 2023 06:23:59 -0800") 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:273848 Archived-At: >> 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 This variable is obsolete since 27.1; not worthwhile any more.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? Nothing specific, no. > Is it time to actually mark this stuff obsolete? Hmm... isn't it marked obsolete already? Or did you mean to ask if it's time to throw away the corresponding code? Stefan