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From: jmarant@nerim.net (Jérôme Marant)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Questions about fns.el
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:11:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fzc2e6wg.fsf@marant.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1B4v4P-0000HM-WB@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 21 Mar 2004 00:00:21 -0500")

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> We have eliminated fns.el nowadays, but here are the answers.

I noticed this. I should have mentioned the current stable version.
My question was related to a Debian user who asked for fns.el
byte-compiling.

>
>       I have two questions about fns.el:
>       - Why is it installed in an architecture-dependent location
> 	i.e. /usr/lib/emacs/21.3/<arch> ?
>
> Because different platforms might have different primitive functions.
>
>       - Why isn't it byte-compiled?
>
> Because compiling it would not give any benefit.

Thanks very much.

-- 
Jérôme Marant

http://marant.org

      reply	other threads:[~2004-03-21 12:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-20 13:30 Questions about fns.el Jérôme Marant
2004-03-21  5:00 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-21 12:11   ` Jérôme Marant [this message]

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