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

[David Kastrup]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> (disassemble 
>>   (lambda nil 
>>     `(:a 1 :b 2 
>>       :c ,#'(lambda nil (when (eq (following-char) ?\n) (forward-char 1))))))
> [...]
>> second place, byte-optimize-pure-func is called, but the optimization
>> fails because a (function ...) form appears inside the arguments to
>> list, which does not count as byte-compile-constp.  This is the other
>
> Hmm... we should probably update byte-compile-constp to accept
> (function ...) just like it accepts (quote ...).

IIRC, this difference was the whole point of (function ...) in the
first place: that function objects could get optimized on
byte-compilation for better speed.

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