Re: Disabling asynchronous native compilation by user settings

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 13:12:05 +0200
> From:  Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >>>> Yes, set both native-comp-deferred-compilation and
> >>>> comp-enable-subr-trampolines to the nil value.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks. I confirmed asynchronous native compilation is
> >>> disabled by setting them to nil in ~/.emacs.
> >> 
> >> Why one has to set two variables to do one thing?
> >
> > Because there are two things to do, not one.
> 
> >From the human perspective it is one

It depends on the human, I guess.  It's two from my perspective.

> and the interface should be based on that, under the hood it can
> then set every single Emacs variable if that's what needs to happen
> ...

We don't intend to provide an easy interface to disable native
compilation in an Emacs that is capable of native compilation.
It's something that makes no sense to do.  I only described that
because someone asked a specific question, and I wanted to help him
without questioning his rationale.