Re: Getting ready to land native-compilation on master

[Andy Moreton]

On Fri 09 Apr 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2021 19:08:17 +0000
>> 
>> > P.S. Is Andreas website on gccemacs[1] the proper place to get in-depth
>> > information about the implementation? It feels more like a change-log.
>> >
>> >
>> > [1] https://akrl.sdf.org/gccemacs.html
>> 
>> Well, ATM as Eli mentioned, documentaiton is something a little lacking,
>> certanly in my dev blog some datastructure and mechanisms are
>> described/justified.  Other than that you might want to have a look to:
>> 
>> <https://zenodo.org/record/3736363>
>> <https://toobnix.org/videos/watch/1f997b3c-00dc-4f7d-b2ce-74538c194fa7>
>> <https://toobnix.org/videos/watch/b985c5ca-fdcf-46ff-92d5-e68922fe4821>
>> 
>> ATM to go further I think the approach would be dumping passes and/or
>> starting to look into the source code.  I tried my best to share with
>> the community what I was working on and how but is not the easiest when
>> the thing is being worked.
>
> I think it would be good to take the relevant parts of your blog and
> rewrite them as introductory commentary to the code in comp.el, with
> the goal of providing enough overview and background information to
> let people discover the details by reading the code.

Perhaps some of this material could be added to the "GNU Emacs
Internals" section of the elisp manual.

    AndyM