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

[Corwin Brust]

On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 1:47 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > From: Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st>
> > Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2022 21:22:37 -0600
> > Cc: Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org>, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, 
> > Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
> >       Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
> >
> > As an interesting aside:  I see that it *is* loading the natively
> > compiled sources that were build and packaged with Emacs.  This is
> > despite getting a nil return from `native-comp-avialable-p', which
> > suggests that even people without a local libgccjit+gcc (e.g. a
> > working MSYS) can benefit from (the bundled) nativly compiled sources
> > we distribute.  [[stroking chin myscheviously]]
>
> This is the expected behavior.  Only native-compilation of *.el files
> for which no *.eln files are provided is disabled without libgccjit
> and Binutils installation.  Loading of existing *.eln files doesn't
> need libgccjit.
>
> So I'm not sure why you are surprised.

Now that ask, I'm not sure either.

Should we consider adding NATIVE_FULL_AOT when building the windows
distribution?