Re: Merging native-comp and pgtk

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 08:41:45 -0500
> Cc: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>,
>  "Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> None of those apply to native-code compilation.  On an under-powered
> machine like a BananaPi byte-code compilation of the whole of Emacs
> takes quite a while (order of magnitude around 1h).  It's a pain but
> it's bearable.  For native-code compilation the order of magnitude is
> a whole day, which I don't find bearable, especially since all those
> .eln files need to be rebuilt as soon as I have recompiled a new
> `temacs`!
> 
> Lazy compilation is not a natural by-product of the way native-comp
> works: it's an extra feature that was added manually because it proved
> very useful.  It can be turned off of course.

The question was whether it should be ON by default.  If the problem
with that happens on slow machines, we should consider an
alternative: have it OFF by default and ask users of slow machines to
turn this ON.