1 files changed, 7 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/gnus/gnus-sum.el b/lisp/gnus/gnus-sum.el
index ba616586002..1bd0e8847e2 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/gnus-sum.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/gnus-sum.el
@@ -5001,23 +5001,13 @@ If LINE, insert the rebuilt thread starting on line LINE."
                               gnus-article-sort-functions)))
       (gnus-message 7 "Sorting articles...done"))))
 
-;; Written by Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>.
-(defmacro gnus-thread-header (thread)
-  "Return header of first article in THREAD.
-Note that THREAD must never, ever be anything else than a variable -
-using some other form will lead to serious barfage."
-  (or (symbolp thread) (signal 'wrong-type-argument '(symbolp thread)))
-  ;; (8% speedup to gnus-summary-prepare, just for fun :-)
-  (cond
-   ((and (boundp 'lexical-binding) lexical-binding)
-    ;; FIXME: This version could be a "defsubst" rather than a macro.
-    `(#[257 "\211:\203\16\0\211@;\203\15\0A@@\207"
-            [] 2]
-      ,thread))
-   (t
-    ;; Not sure how XEmacs handles these things, so let's keep the old code.
-    (list 'byte-code "\10\211:\203\17\0\211@;\203\16\0A@@\207"
-          (vector thread) 2))))
+(defsubst gnus-thread-header (thread)
+  "Return header of first article in THREAD."
+  (if (consp thread)
+      (car (if (stringp (car thread))
+               (cadr thread)
+             thread))
+    thread))
 
 (defsubst gnus-article-sort-by-number (h1 h2)
   "Sort articles by article number."