Re: "You should byte-compile Gnus" ?

[William Xu]

Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:

> The function where this warning lives is `gnus' in gnus.el:
>
> ,----
> | (defun gnus (&optional arg dont-connect slave)
> |   "Read network news.
> | If ARG is non-nil and a positive number, Gnus will use that as the
> | startup level.  If ARG is non-nil and not a positive number, Gnus will
> | prompt the user for the name of an NNTP server to use."
> |   (interactive "P")
> |   (unless (byte-code-function-p (symbol-function 'gnus))
> |     (message "You should byte-compile Gnus")
> |     (sit-for 2))
> |   (gnus-1 arg dont-connect slave))
> `----
>
> So it looks like either your gnus.el is not byte-compiled or there is
> another one lingering somewhere on your system.

Ooh, it is complaining about the .gnus? My gnus config file is in
xwl-gnus.el. All my configs are not byte-compiled, and i don't like to,
since at times it confuses me whenever i forgot to recompile after
modifications.

Why does gnus insist on that? How much speed would be gained after
enabling that? 

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William

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