Re: Complied into debs please (Python/Emacs packagers take note)

[Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>]

Brian May <bam@debian.org> writes:

> Why can't the bytecode be compatible?

It used to be, but differing advancements and optimizations made them
different.  Furthermore, if macros used by a package are different in
two emacsen, the resultant byte-compiled file will be different, and
may only work on the one it was compiled with.  Since macros are often
used to resolve differences between emacsen at compile time (rather
than incurring a run-time hit) you would still need to compile with
each emacs.

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