Re: Native compilation: the bird-eye view

[Andrea Corallo]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Andrea Corallo <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 17:03:13 +0000
>> 
>> > And for the "non-average" user, who builds Emacs from sources?  AFAIU,
>> > native compilation of all Lisp files takes many hours even on fast
>> > machines -- won't this be an annoyance if we don't come up with a JIT
>> > mechanism?
>> 
>> I'm not sure but I guess than the 'JIT mechanism' is already in place
>> and called 'deferred-compilation'.  Isn't it?
>
> You mean, you implemented it as part of the branch?

Yes

> Then I apologize
> for not knowing about its existence.

No issue, just to make sure we are on the same page.  At the time I
wrote some description for that here:

https://akrl.sdf.org/gccemacs.html#org3422e30

I discuss that also around 22.30 at the presentation I've recorded for
ELS:

https://akrl.sdf.org/gccemacs.html#orgf6587ae

Regards

  Andrea

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