Re: Finalizing 'inhibit-automatic-native-compilation'

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Here are the questions I think we want to be answered to finalize the
>> implementation and effects of 'inhibit-automatic-native-compilation':
>>
>>   . Do people actually use 'inhibit-automatic-native-compilation' or
>>     the corresponding environment variable?  If so, for what reasons,
>>     and why tweaking 'native-comp-eln-load-path' to direct the *.eln
>>     files to some other place, including the temporary-file directory,
>>     was not enough?
>
> I do.
>
> When running Emacs ada-mode tests, I spawn lots of Emacsen. If each one
> tries to native compile stuff, it just slows down the tests.

Any reason you use `inhibit-automatic-native-compilation` rather than
`native-comp-deferred-compilation`?


        Stefan