bug#6996: Acknowledgement (`byte-compile-report-ops', `byte-code-meter', `byte-metering-on', what are they?)

[Stefan Monnier]

>> At the worst it is dead code that could be deleted.
> At the very least there must be _some_ reason the code has
> persisted... Hence, my tepid curiosity.

>From the description it was code that tried to figure out which
byte-codes were used more often.  Probably this was used at some point
to help decide which byte-code to add/keep as well as how much to
optimize paticular byte-codes.


        Stefan