Re: installing elisp .el files

[Mark Eichin <eichin@cygnus.com>]

> Hmm.  Is it really worth byte-compiling such a small file ?

Byte-compilation depends much more on *speed* than size.  The
changelog mode doesn't do enough (I assume) to merit the speed
improvement... gnus, for example, really really needs to be byte
compiled.  mailcrypt, w3, vm, probably all do as well.  They also
happen to be big, but that's not the main issue, though there's some
correlation. 

Generally, if a package includes an elisp helper file, it probably
doesn't need to be byte-compiled. If the package is *written*
primarily in emacs, it's probably complex enough that speed is an
issue and should be byte compiled. In between it's a convenience
issue.