Re: Suppressing native compilation (short and long term)

[Andrea Corallo]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org> writes:
>
>>> (Which reminds me -- one thing I've been pondering for a while is
>>> whether "emacs -Q" should imply having the JIT off or not.  We use "-Q"
>>> to get a repeatable Emacs for users, so it would make some sense to have
>>> -Q now imply `inhibit-automatic-native-compilation'.
>>
>> Noooo please!! -Q has just one single clear meaning, let please not add
>> other implications to it!!  The situation would become very quickly
>> unmanageable.
>
> Yes, that one clear meaning is:
>
>               -Q, --quick
>                       Similar to "-q --no-site-file --no-splash".  Also, avoid
>                       processing X resources.

Exactly, adding complexity involving the execution engine here is IMO
just searching for troubles (and having -Q not usable for debugging the
execution engine itself).  Let's please do not write patches solving
issues we never encountered or implementing unrequested features.

  Andrea