On: A few new things in Emacs 29

[mark_l_watson]

I agree that Emacs 29 contains many improvements, thanks to all of the developers and documentation writers.

I am more excited by Emacs 30, mostly I like the ahead of time compilation of Lisp code.

[mattarm → mark_l_watson]

> I am more excited by Emacs 30, mostly I like the ahead of time compilation of Lisp code.

Emacs has had an ahead of time compilation feature, "Native Compilation," since Emacs 28. Is this what you mean? Or is the Emacs 30 feature something different?

[agumonkey → mattarm]

there's a flag to decide if you want AOT or on-load/on-demand native comp

[yaantc → mattarm]

Emacs 28 has just in time compilation: the compilation happens lazily as a package is loaded. Ahead of time would means at installation time I guess.

[mark_l_watson → yaantc]

That is y understanding also.

[e3bc54b2 → mark_l_watson]

AOT is coming in 29.1.