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.
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