Re: Disabling JIT in build

[Rik]

On 09/05/2012 10:00 AM, address@hidden wrote:
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> Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 09:18:18 -0400
> From: Michael D Godfrey <address@hidden>
> To: CdeMills <address@hidden>
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> Subject: Re: What is next Octave version? 3.8 or 4.0?
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> On 09/05/2012 08:13 AM, CdeMills wrote:
>> > Michael Godfrey wrote
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> >And, what about JIT?  Both the GUI and JIT  are major items, but 
>>>> >> >neither
>>>> >> >is ready today.
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> >Michael
>>>> >> >
>> > How about having 3.8 as a testbed for the new gems, and 4.0 when they're OK
>> > ?
>> >
>> > Regards
>> >
>> > Pascal
>> >
> I can see this working for the GUI with the default setting as --no-gui, but
> right now there appears to be no way to have the JIT compiled but off by 
> default.
9/5/12

Michael,

This is something for the configuration and build system and I believe it
is worth doing.  Eventually, everyone will want to have code acceleration,
but as it is still fairly experimental we should have an easy way to
disable it with a '--disable-jit' option.

--Rik