Re: Enabling native compilation by default when libgccjit is present

[Po Lu]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> I think that native compilation is too new to enable by default.
>> There is no rush about this.
>>
>> Let's release Emacs 28 with it disabled by default.  That will give us
>> a year or two to (1) make it really reliable and (2) let users decide
>> which they prefer.
>
> We're not discussing the defaults in Emacs 28, but on master.

Please give it a while before making that change.

I have the libgccjit development packages installed, so changing my
muscle memory to type `./configure --without-native-compilation'
whenever I want to build Emacs (for testing purposes, for instance)
would be quite difficult.

I think that applies to many other people as well.

> Most distributions will probably release Emacs 28.1 with native
> compilation switched on.

Why is that so?  Most distributions only build their Emacs packages with
the default options.