RE: [External] : Re: Native compilation

[Drew Adams]

> Uhm, native code, what's that? Compile for the architecture
> you're on? But isn't that the natural order of things?
> 
> Except for special cases when you cross-compile for, say
> a unit with less CPU power, to run but not compile?
> 
> And, is that the whole field?
> 
> No third way of doing it?

The result of Emacs byte-compilation is not
architecture-dependent.  It runs on any architecture
that Emacs supports.  Emacs Lisp has always had the
possibility of byte-compilation.  Native compilation
is new, for Emacs Lisp.

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