Re: Native compilation on as default?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 10:11:36 -0400
> 
> 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
> :)

Stefan, what is your opinion on this?