Re: NaCl support for Emacs

[Carsten Mattner]

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I'm interested in bringing in support for the NaCl cryptographic library
>> for Emacs, after 24.1 is out.  There is info on NaCl here:
>
> While it might be an interesting feature to provide for future Elisp
> packages, its immediate usefulness is much less obvious, so the kind of
> compile-time linking model we use for things like libgnutls would not be
> appropriate (e.g. Debian wouldn't want to add nacl as a dependency if
> it's not actually used).
>
> OTOH that might be a good motivation to add support for dynamic loading
> of extension libraries.

Only if NaCl's "Automatic CPU-specific tuning" can be done at run-time
and not only at compile-time. Ted, what's the status with that?