Re: Finalizing 'inhibit-automatic-native-compilation'

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > If we do this, any reasons not to do that also for any other .eln
>> > files, not just trampolines?
>> 
>> Generating&using trampolines is necessary for correct execution.
>> In contrast other `.eln` affect only performance.
>> 
>> Generating files in `temporary-file-directory` is definitely not ideal,
>> so I'd rather limit it to the cases where it's necessary for correctness.
>
> If by this you mean that we should not allow
> comp-enable-subr-trampolines to have a string value,

No, that's not what I mean (and I don't understand the connection you
see between what I wrote and what you wrote).

> meaning the directory to place the trampolines, then I think we
> should, since that can support use cases other than unwritable
> home directory.

I have no objection to the string value of
comp-enable-subr-trampolines`.


        Stefan