On Tue, Dec 07 2021, "Theo de Raadt" <deraadt@openbsd.org> wrote:
> Jeremie Courreges-Anglas <jca@wxcvbn.org> wrote:
>
>> cc'ing maintainer,
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 07 2021, Timo Myyrä <timo.myyra@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.
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