On Mon, Jan 17, 2022, 10:25 H. Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> wrote:

Hmm, how can I test if Emacs is actually loading some .eln and not the
.elc files?


I have been using describe-function (C-h f) for this  It can tell us if a given command has been natively compiled (or byte-compiled or neither of these) for the present session. 

Aside: I would first check `native-comp-available-p' to confirm the build has the native compiler and that the Emacs instance is using it.