Subject: bug#52969: Shortdoc "string" group leads to backtrace

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2022 21:37:42 +0100

Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <[email-masked]> writes:

> 1- Forget about autoloads's docstrings altogether (i.e. always load the
>    autoload's target when we need the docstring).
> 2- Revert part of 59732a83c8 so that we still keep the docstrings of
>    `lisp/loaddefs.el` in etc/DOC.
> 3- Byte-compile `lisp/loaddefs.el`.
>
> I pushed a patch which does n°2.

Are there any disadvantages to doing n°3?  I liked the simplifications
in 59732a83c8.

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