Re: byte-opt.el addition - optimize list of compile-time constants

[Paul Pogonyshev]

Zack Weinberg wrote:
> I seriously wonder how much would break if this optimization were
> implemented for 'list'.  My suspicion is that people don't commonly
> apply 'eq' to lists in the first place.

You are very wrong here.  While it will hardly break sane code,
`eq' is _very_ often applied to cons cells, e.g. lists.

Paul