Re: Suppressing native compilation (short and long term)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
> Cc: rlb@defaultvalue.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 18:49:43 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
> >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 12:52:59 +0000
> >> 
> >> This is what `native-comp-deferred-compilation' does.  Well except for
> >> trampolines but this is extremly light as cpu/energy cost.
> >
> > I think if we want to allow people to turn off async compilation, we
> > should provide a way to force native-comp-available-p to return nil.
> > When that function returns nil, Emacs already does react correctly (or
> > at least it's supposed to).
> 
> Yes `native-comp-deferred-compilation' AFAIK does exactly this already,
> `native-comp-available-p' is to check if the native compiler is
> available (not necessarily the deferred/async mechanism).

But then it should disable the trampolines as well, see startup.el.