Re: FW: [External] : Re: Native compilation by default?: Was [Re: stats say SBCL is 78 875 % faster than natively compiled Elisp

[Emanuel Berg]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> And the doc makes clear that `M-x load-file FOO.el' or
>> (load-file "FOO.el") loads FOO.el.
>
> No, it doesn't.

We need like a native compile FAQ to answer more basic
questions, in a simple way.

1. When does it happen to an individual file without you
   doing anything?

2. How do you explicitely native compile stuff, from
   a Makefile as well as from Emacs?

3. How do you load it?

4. How much faster is it than byte-compiled code? Is it around
   7% as the test say? Why is it still so much slower than
   SBCL which is 78 875% faster? Is it because Elisp has
   dynamic typing and the compiler also lacks optimizations
   that, perhaps, will come in time?

5. (And so on.)

I can answer question 2, see these files:

  https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/native.el
  https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/Makefile

I can also answer 3: In each file f, do

  (provide 'f)

last, then `native-compile' it, then do (load "f").

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