Re: Enabling native compilation by default when libgccjit is present

[Andrea Corallo]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> That sounds a bit odd to me.  Why would users with slow machines
>> constantly rebuild Emacs, to the point that they get turned off Emacs
>> altogether?  Wouldn't they just settle for running the latest stable
>> release long before that point?
>
> Emacs' release cycle is a bit slow, so there's a sizeable number of
> people that build from git.
>
>> Of course, many people do track master, but I would put them firmly in
>> the "enthusiast" camp.  Such users will surely understand that there is
>> a cost associated with running master, no?
>
> I'd rather not scare away more people than necessary.  "I wanted to try
> Emacs, but it took twenty minutes to build, so I'm using vim instead" is
> certainly something I can see happening.

I'm not sure this scenarion is very likely to happen.  Lets consider
that it would be used *only* if libgccjit is installed on the system.
At present AFAIK the only big project relying on libgccjit is us, so
most likely libgccjit is not installed unless the user did it
voluntarily.

Regards

  Andrea