Re: Compiling in mingw-ucrt runtime

[Po Lu]

Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> writes:

> Another question: the build process compiles one lisp file at a time
> It takes quite long time to recompile. Is there some special reason a
> separate Emacs process is created per each Lisp file, instead of
> single Emacs process compiling all lisp files in batch? Just so we can
> call make with -jN flag?

That, and also so that none of the compilation process is left to
chance, since otherwise Lisp files loaded during one file's compilation
might contaminate the compiler's environment for subsequent files and
create latent dependencies on their order or presence.