.gnus.el and .emacs

[Joseph Gay]

Hello all.

First off, I've just started with No Gnus 0.11 and the installation was
rather painless. I'm using nnimap to a remote server; the speed and
search improvements are easily discerned, and move the imap user
experience from acceptable to quite good. Thanks for all of your hard
work.

My question is I hope relatively simple. Privacy concerns aside, is the
only reason to have a .gnus.el to reduce Emacs startup time? I currently
don't have one. All of my Gnus config is in the equivalent of .emacs. I
haven't suffered any for it, though the manual says that .gnus.el is
preferable.