Re: Native compilation on as default?

[Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org>
>> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2023 04:44:12 -0400
>> 
>> native compilation was off by default in 28 and same will be for 29.  I
>> believe the 28 series proved this feature to be stable.
>> 
>> Also I read a number of dristros (Fedora, Debian, openSUSE, Arch,
>> Gentoo, NixOS, Guix) offer Emacs with native compilation on.
>> 
>> What about having it on as default for emacs 30?  In case two scenarios:
>> 
>> 1- On by default when libgccjit is present otherwise off.
>> 
>> 2- On by default and if libgccjit is not present we raise a complain at
>> configure time, the user can either install libgccjit or manually
>> indicate --with-native-compilation=no.
>> 
>> WDYT?
>
> I'd like to wait with this decision until after Emacs 29.1 is out.  We
> made several non-trivial changes in native compilation in Emacs 29, so
> I'd like to see how it fares and how it is received by the community.
>
> This decision isn't urgent yet, since Emacs 30 will not be released
> soon enough to begin worry now.

Agreed, sounds sensible to me.

Especially in case we go for solution 2 I'd suggest not to wait to
pickup the decision excessively late in the 30 dev cycle anyway, this in
order to be able to evaluate the user acceptance.

I'll ping this discussion in the future then.

Thanks

  Andrea