From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Enabling native compilation by default when libgccjit is present Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2021 23:33:54 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83wnkm94oq.fsf@gnu.org> <87y251vdeh.fsf@gnus.org> <87lf11tlzf.fsf@gnus.org> <87r1atrsp9.fsf@gnus.org> <8735n85fa5.fsf@gnus.org> <87r1arskmq.fsf@gnus.org> <87r1arsjpu.fsf@yahoo.com> <87ilw3sjlr.fsf@gnus.org> <87r1ar4mi2.fsf@gmail.com> <874k7nw32n.fsf@gnus.jao.io> <87mtlfasg4.fsf@telefonica.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13496"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 06 05:36:30 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mu5jp-0003F9-RW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2021 05:36:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43636 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mu5jo-0003Kh-Oe for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2021 23:36:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:57330) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mu5hL-0007ro-NB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Dec 2021 23:33:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=37116 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mu5hL-0007LG-3h; Sun, 05 Dec 2021 23:33:55 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=R4oRtOY/sEwqkqQ3w0Sco0VgfviOMrrQCOhM6sw+Hkw=; b=CJcgmaafM0OF 08aKmJ/GfF2Leuo+3ed0Q3M0hwH0M1KFKwx2MpPQ0XzILmgSlGIEyvkQVoI78VWy/PcersU3PdbK7 xAe06q2GkblNXLdfBZmtSc19XymiUklXBl0alyr+Iy0FMo/s7pKaFSppOQym1UEBNQHDNAlpZaHgT 7uv36jOqmkws7JoF7KrjhsaGZ84009oUUnuVea/IhIhpjZU7MkzV0tMoXyKgU31n3SjhfG8ytPkJ/ dbmRbPW2tYy3UoWIwH7urPjobZQfrgfS72GJjH8lIT2ODF29xRk1+MbITI+MsJwP3aZmBSzETrMTa SBYSaAbDPPSaiTcowgRj2g==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mu5hK-0007sv-2h; Sun, 05 Dec 2021 23:33:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87mtlfasg4.fsf@telefonica.net> (message from =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes on Sun, 05 Dec 2021 18:10:19 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:281046 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > The reason for this is not hard to understand for anyone with a little > bit of knowledge about binary code optimization. For instance, if your > Elisp code consists on invoking opaque C primitives, the gain of > compiling it to machine instructions will be mostly irrelevant. I wonder if this could be a guide towards doing native compilation only in the cases where it will provide a benefit. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)