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Re: emacs-29 7fd822e7f5: Update Antinews in the user manual for Emacs 29
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Sean Whitton |
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Re: emacs-29 7fd822e7f5: Update Antinews in the user manual for Emacs 29 |
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Tue, 3 Jan 2023 06:20:42 +0000 |
On Sun, Jan 01, 2023 at 10:39:00AM -0500, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> @itemize @bullet
> @item
> -Emacs can no longer be built with support of native compilation of
> -Lisp programs. This means Emacs builds much faster, and the problems
> -that came with native compilation: the need to have GCC and Binutils
> -installed, the complications of managing your @file{eln-cache}
> -directories---all of that is now future history. The simplicity and
> -elegance of the Emacs byte-compiled code is now restored in all of its
> -pristine beauty.
> +Like its newer releases, Emacs 28 can still be built with support of
> +native compilation of Lisp programs. However, in preparation for
> +removal of this feature in some previous version, we've deleted the
> +capability of ahead-of-time native compilation of all the Lisp files
> +that come with Emacs. This makes the Emacs build process much faster.
I am pretty sure Emacs 28 can do the AOT compilation, but you have to export
NATIVE_FULL_AOT rather than using a ./configure option.
--
Sean Whitton
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