Re: Native compilation on Windows, was Re: Bootstrap Compilation Speed

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
> Cc: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de,  corwin@bru.st,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:56:44 +0000
> 
> I remember asking about this some time back when I got the
> impression this would not work.

AFAIR, it did work in my (very limited) testing.

> It's a little bit late in the release process to be testing the
> theory now. The last snapshot is a year old, and that is not native
> comp.

I don't see how we could do better, given the (un)availability of
snapshots and pretest binaries for Windows.  Certainly, delaying Emacs
28.1 release until this is tested well enough would be a worse
alternative.