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

[H. Dieter Wilhelm]

chad <yandros@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 5:24 PM H. Dieter Wilhelm 
> <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> wrote:
>
>  Thanks, do you know what jannson is needed for?
>
> It lets emacs do a bunch of JSON processing in C rather than elisp,
> which is very helpful for a bunch of cases, especially some LSP
> modules.
>
> Just in case: Language Server Protocol; a semi-standard way for
> outboard toolsets like specialized compiler suites to communicate with
> editors (primarily VSCode, but somewhat generalized and so supported
> in other editors as well) about things like code completion and
> language-aware editing. The protocol ends up being pretty chatty,
> often sending a lot of json back and forth, and the pure-elisp method
> of converting it had a pretty high overhead.
>

Thanks for the explanation Chad, even though I never got in contact with
LSP, your remarks gave me the idea to look in another way to the
"standard" dependencies of Emacs.  Namely, that the "standard" is what
developers are are activating - or trying to activate - in the configure
script.

--
        Dieter