Re: Finalizing 'inhibit-automatic-native-compilation'

[Stephen Leake]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Here are the questions I think we want to be answered to finalize the
> implementation and effects of 'inhibit-automatic-native-compilation':
>
>   . Do people actually use 'inhibit-automatic-native-compilation' or
>     the corresponding environment variable?  If so, for what reasons,
>     and why tweaking 'native-comp-eln-load-path' to direct the *.eln
>     files to some other place, including the temporary-file directory,
>     was not enough?

I do.

When running Emacs ada-mode tests, I spawn lots of Emacsen. If each one
tries to native compile stuff, it just slows down the tests.

I could try to ensure the stuff is native compiled first, but that's a
maintenance burden.

>   . What do we want to do about compiling trampolines when
>     native-compilation is disabled?

What is the name of the "temporary directory" that is not deleted on
Windows? I can check it see if is created when I run my tests.

>   . Do we want to keep the EMACS_INHIBIT_AUTOMATIC_NATIVE_COMPILATION
>     environment variable?

I don't need this for my use case.

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