Re: Native compilation on as default?

[Andrea Corallo]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org>
>> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2023 04:44:12 -0400
>> 
>> native compilation was off by default in 28 and same will be for 29.  I
>> believe the 28 series proved this feature to be stable.
>> 
>> Also I read a number of dristros (Fedora, Debian, openSUSE, Arch,
>> Gentoo, NixOS, Guix) offer Emacs with native compilation on.
>> 
>> What about having it on as default for emacs 30?  In case two scenarios:
>> 
>> 1- On by default when libgccjit is present otherwise off.
>> 
>> 2- On by default and if libgccjit is not present we raise a complain at
>> configure time, the user can either install libgccjit or manually
>> indicate --with-native-compilation=no.
>> 
>> WDYT?
>
> I'd like to wait with this decision until after Emacs 29.1 is out.  We
> made several non-trivial changes in native compilation in Emacs 29, so
> I'd like to see how it fares and how it is received by the community.

Hi Eli,

29.2 pretest out reminded me I promised to ping this thread so here I'm
:)

Best Regards

  Andrea