Re: Suppressing native compilation (short and long term)

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Mon 03 Oct 2022 at 09:07AM -04, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> AFAICT so far I've heard of two reasons to "disable automatic native
> compilation":
>
> A) Avoid the "uncontrolled" (mostly in terms of *when* it happens)
>    resource usage associated with it (e.g. battery).
>
> B) Avoid writing to $HOME.
>
> For (A), I think that (setq native-comp-deferred-compilation nil) seems
> perfectly sufficient (you can set it early in your (early) init file and if
> every blue moon some native compilation still happens because of a file
> loaded before that `setq` it shouldn't be a big deal).

We'd also like to be able to compile and install system-wide -- it would
be good to be able to benefit from native compilation without it
happening by surrpise.

-- 
Sean Whitton