Native Elisp Compilation landing in Master soon

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Post by Decabytes » Sat, Apr 10, 2021, 1:45 PM UTC

Native Elisp Compilation landing in Master soon
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Re: Native Elisp Compilation landing in Master soon

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Post by bjoli » Sat, Apr 10, 2021, 3:37 PM UTC

From an Quick google I was unable to find any benchmarks. Does anyone have any anecdata?

Re: Native Elisp Compilation landing in Master soon

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Post by rgrmrts » Sat, Apr 10, 2021, 4:11 PM UTC

bjoli wrote: post #2

From an Quick google I was unable to find any benchmarks. Does anyone have any anecdata?

I started using the native-comp branch a few months ago and have had no issues. As for performance, I haven’t benchmarked but things are noticeably faster and smoother. I’m on macOS and my main issue was the display going blank for a few milliseconds, and I’m no longer seeing that so a huge win in that regard! General search and completion seem faster too

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Post by rurban » Sat, Apr 10, 2021, 4:19 PM UTC

bjoli wrote: post #2

From an Quick google I was unable to find any benchmarks. Does anyone have any anecdata?

Feels like 10x faster

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Apr 10, 2021, 4:49 PM UTC

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Re: Native Elisp Compilation landing in Master soon

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Post by anaerobicover » Sat, Apr 10, 2021, 4:51 PM UTC

Does this means that it will likely be in a release prior to version 28? I'm not too familiar with Emacs release scheduling.

Re: Native Elisp Compilation landing in Master soon

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Post by nahuel0x » Sat, Apr 10, 2021, 7:09 PM UTC

Native compilation will need to be manually enabled on init.el or is already enabled by default?

Re: Native Elisp Compilation landing in Master soon

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Post by rgrmrts » Sat, Apr 10, 2021, 8:53 PM UTC

nahuel0x wrote: post #7

Native compilation will need to be manually enabled on init.el or is already enabled by default?

Currently (with the native-comp branch) you have to enable it in your init.el, I assume that behavior will remain.

E.g.:

  (setq comp-speed 3)

Re: Native Elisp Compilation landing in Master soon

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Post by bjoli » Sun, Apr 11, 2021, 4:41 PM UTC

rgrmrts wrote: post #8

nahuel0x wrote: post #7

Native compilation will need to be manually enabled on init.el or is already enabled by default?

Currently (with the native-comp branch) you have to enable it in your init.el, I assume that behavior will remain. E.g.: (setq comp-speed 3)

Use comp-speed 2 for Emacs as a whole though. 3 will break some semantics of the language if I understand correctly.

Re: Native Elisp Compilation landing in Master soon

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Post by daptaq » Mon, Apr 12, 2021, 9:34 AM UTC

anaerobicover wrote: post #6

Does this means that it will likely be in a release prior to version 28? I'm not too familiar with Emacs release scheduling.

No, if it has been merged into the master branch, it will be released with 28.1.