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nativecomp is pretty much a gimmick and should make absolutely no difference in perceived Emacs slowness during actual usage and not stupid microbenchmarks.
by armitron 3y ago
nativecomp is pretty much a gimmick and should make absolutely no difference in perceived Emacs slowness during actual usage and not stupid microbenchmarks.
- ParetoOptimal 3y agoThis is absolutely not true. I mistakingly used an emacs without native compilation and very much noticed in large org buffers.
- techbro92 3y agoReally? Do you have any links to explain this? I find this to be a super unintuitive result because I would expect compiled code to be faster than interpreted. My recommendation for native compiling is just based on personal experience not benchmarks. Emacs feels faster after enabling it.
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- TacticalCoder 3y ago> nativecomp is pretty much a gimmick and should make absolutely no difference in perceived Emacs slowness during actual usage and not stupid microbenchmarks. That is completely wrong. I'm using Emacs back since when I was compiling it on 486 with 8 MB of RAM. nativecomp is the single biggest speed boost I saw Emacs ever getting. Using Emacs on the same machine with nativecomp on or not was night and day (a Core i7-6700 in my case: maybe the difference would be less noticeable nowadays but I couldn't tell as I now only ever run nativecomp and compile it with nativecomp on). You're the first person I ever hear saying nativecomp doesn't make a difference.
- dingnuts 3y agowell, it does make a difference in the perceived slowness, so something about your mental model of what nativecomp does, must be incorrect. I compile Emacs from source specifically to get nativecomp because of the obviously perceptible difference in performance. Maybe you have a much faster computer than the rest of us?