Julian Bradfield writes:
I realized that I don't really understand how byte compilation
works.
;-)
For the particular case you have in mind, just try it. XEmacs will be
happy to visit the compiled file, and it will be quite obvious if the
regexp is optimized to a constant or not.
For details on how byte-compilation actually works, hopefully Mike or
Aidan will jump in.
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