Re: Merging native-comp and pgtk

[Andrea Corallo]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Andrea Corallo via "Emacs development discussions."
> <emacs-devel@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>   - ~6 months ago I was asked by Eli to open a bug [1] to handle code
>>     review and merge process.  As of today ~3 months more passed since
>>     my last try to ping this, unfortunately no progress was made.
>>
>>     Each day the code is not on master we lose some verification
>>     opportunity.
>
> I've got one question about how things are compiled that I meant to ask
> but forgot: Why is AOT not the default, and why does the native-comp
> branch do compilation on-the-fly in the background?

So I was asked to set it as default in order to limit the build time, I
guess the main point was about thinking to people building from source.

IMO I think too is a good default, distros can easily learn how to build
AOT.

Regards

  Andrea