Re: [External] : Re: Native compilation

[Emanuel Berg]

Drew Adams wrote:

>> Uhm, native code, what's that? Compile for the architecture
>> you're on? But isn't that the natural order of things?
>> 
>> Except for special cases when you cross-compile for, say
>> a unit with less CPU power, to run but not compile?
>> 
>> And, is that the whole field?
>> 
>> No third way of doing it?
>
> The result of Emacs byte-compilation is not
> architecture-dependent. It runs on any architecture that
> Emacs supports. Emacs Lisp has always had the possibility of
> byte-compilation. Native compilation is new, for Emacs Lisp.

We are talking Elisp and not C, OK, wonderful, let's check the
man page for emacs(1) right away ...

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