Re: Making --with-wide-int the default (was: Dynamic loading progress)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 09:26:23 +0200
> Cc: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>, Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
> > There's some slowdown, but it all but disappears in an optimized
> > build.
> 
> Hmm, I just built with --with-wide-int, and I don't notice the slowdown,
> perhaps because I also build with -O0 and --enable-checking=yes,glyphs, so 
> it's
> already a bit slow.

You need to run measurable benchmarks, in order to see it.

> Then perhaps we should enable it in all 32-bit platforms and just wait for the
> fallout. We can always fall back to the current default if things don't look
> good.

That'd be my tendency, yes.