bug#68931: 30.0.50; Gnus byte-compilation error with (display . [not expire]) with git emacs

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

>> In general I think Gnus goes to a lot of this kind of effort, based on
>> performance considerations that are no longer current. Especially with
>> native compilation available, I suspect there's no real need to keep
>> byte-compiling things on the fly.
>
> FWIW, I don't think native compilation makes any difference in this
> respect since the purpose of the code is to avoid running
> interpreted code, which is still as relevant with native compilation as
> with byte compilation.

Ah, that's true.