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: Native compilation on as default? Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 22:27:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83legs281v.fsf@gnu.org> 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="30335"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andrea Corallo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 26 04:28:17 2023 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 1qvq6b-0007gm-7d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 26 Oct 2023 04:28:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qvq5c-00008A-QM; Wed, 25 Oct 2023 22:27:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qvq5Z-0008WI-Ck for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2023 22:27:13 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qvq5Z-0006pZ-4b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2023 22:27:13 -0400 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=Mf/int6PKaPW399ah77qs5eXJOtcLCeP4lHKo0D2/uM=; b=oj6sx1ZpJqZC EXaOr8pQMdzgRxg1DHjp1gd4dwunwhOVYhv4bXaOghU6C8Fq25oy2HA4ff1kBGrVFwKfOmwTTFQs1 QS2ENLfQVFBA8CCZV5lj6JKN6hnPRZoC5oZ1FGJ27C1r3ghARRPw0c2Z2wfuKlPv+LdPF7qYStzz/ nOv9eyUh9abkFtH5QRnW/vi+UuCd0K7VP/BTNIWAua3aON4LYUZ0taRZA1bcZyK6ywLpMkJ7fI7LK 3m6E/8GWWEYwVcfr+ga2uwAy2K+BjR7bbgI91RdjfcASgYda9+KmZNztsc9ya6EEsbBbzDVhW3f5S tYS51VN6HAkXjJyjJ1jBZg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qvq5V-0002uL-Ib; Wed, 25 Oct 2023 22:27:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Andrea Corallo on Wed, 25 Oct 2023 10:11:36 -0400) 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:311873 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. ]]] Building Emacs with native compilation is a lot more fragile than without. Meanwhile, many users don't need it because Emacs is fast enough for us without it. Theefore, we should not enable native compilation by default. -- 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)