Re: Enabling native compilation by default when libgccjit is present

[Stefan Kangas]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I'm not sure that we should default it to "on" on master -- just because
> it makes the build take that much longer, and I'm not sure we should
> expose people casually building Emacs to that.

What does "casually building" mean (as opposed to just "building"), and
why should such users be any less interested in having a performant
Emacs?

> (And think of the CO₂ effects.)

Won't we save CO₂ in the long run by not wasting cycles interpreting
bytecode?  Benchmarks please.  ;-)