Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/emacs-24 r111116: eval-after-load fix

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 03.01.2013 7:27, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Glenn Morris writes:
>
>   > Maybe. (Personally, I doubt any of these purecopy calls have any
>   > non-negligible effect.)
>
> FWIW, XEmacs did away with purespace ages ago with no complaints from
> anybody.  (We still have `purecopy' for API compatibility with Emacs,
> but it's a no-op now.)
>
> That's damning with faint praise, of course, but it's a data point.

Is it really faint, though? If the removal of purespace brought no 
slowdown, why keep it in GNU Emacs?