On Tue, Dec 07 2021, "Theo de Raadt" <dera...@openbsd.org> wrote: > 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.
In this case I don't even know how appropriate "JIT" is in this situation. If the Lisp files are compiled into modules that should later be dlopened'd, that's not a regular JIT. -- jca | PGP : 0x1524E7EE / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE
