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He's amazing and reading his blog the other day prompted me to update my already kinda recent Emacs (I last build it in february 2022) to the latest master rele
by TacticalCoder 4y ago
He's amazing and reading his blog the other day prompted me to update my already kinda recent Emacs (I last build it in february 2022) to the latest master release.
I haven't found out why yet but apparently Emacs now compiles faster too. On my 3700X / 32 GB of RAM I now get, using make -j 16 bootstrap 1m30s for the non native-compilation and 2m30s for the native-compilation version (which is the one I use). That's down from about 4 minutes six months ago on the same machine: I think something changed that makes compilation faster.
- e3bc54b2 4y agoYep, that was Lars' doing as well. He ran like 1 years worth of Emacs builds on every commit to see where the big jumps occurred, dug down and fixed regressions. There were other people helping too, but I remember Lars being the driving force behind the endeavor.