<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Obviously I've misunderstood the behaviour of Emacs here - I'd assumed > that the internal form was the same regardless of whether one got > there via byte-compiling or not. Apparently this isn't the case!
it certainly isn't. I have to question your results too, the times I had to work with Gnus or W3 with only a single file non-byte-compiled (to debug it) I've found they were *unusably* slow. Also you should try them on a machine that's a little memory starved. You'll find any substantial package will take huge amounts of memory if you run it without byte-compiling it. That said, I would agree with leaving any small to moderate sized packages non-byte-compiled. I think that's our current policy? Most packages don't really gain much from byte-compiling. Just large packages like Calc, W3, Gnus etc. (In fact I suspect the main determining factor is whether the package makes heavy use of the cl package...) greg