Jeremie Courreges-Anglas <j...@wxcvbn.org> wrote: > cc'ing maintainer, > > On Tue, Dec 07 2021, Timo Myyrä <timo.my...@bittivirhe.fi> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The upcoming emacs 28 has native compilation feature which allows it to > > use gcc to compile emacs lisp files to loadable libraries by using the > > libgccjit library. This library is not currently provided by the lang/gcc > > port > > and I took first stab at getting it done. > > I've heard about this feature, but I'm not eager to make use of it. > We'll have to weigh the pros and cons. emacs is already a complex port > which has become a bit easier to handle since the pdumper was > introduced. I have no idea how deep this gccjit rabbit-hole is.
It's all fun and games until the jit compiler or jit engine has a bug. I wonder how many years before grep and sed are "required" to have JIT.
