Re: Making --with-wide-int the default

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 09:05:25 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
>  > E.g., many people here
>  > routinely run Emacs configured with run-time checks and compiled
>  > without optimizations, which makes it 2 - 3 times slower than the
>  > optimized version.
> 
> Unfortunately I can't do that any more since last year.  With run-time
> checks and without optimization Emacs has become so slow that it was
> virtually impossible to use it for editing.  Display of text I typed
> lagged behind by up to three or four characters.

My point is that the configure script cannot reasonably be expected to
find out that this is what will happen on a particular machine.