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Update: As of 2021-04-25 GCC/Native-Comp has been merged into master. I’m sure package managers will be updated soon. What is Emacs Native-Comp? Emacs Native-Comp refers a to the feature/native-comp branch of Emacs. It adds support for compiling EmacsLisp to native code using libgccjit. This provides a notable performance improvement right out of the box. See here for more details. Installing using Nix on WSL2 Note: All instructions below are sourced from this gist....

Doom Emacs? What happened to Spacemacs? In my previous post last year … Wow! I’ve really been neglecting this blogging thing, haven’t I? … I sung the praises for Spacemacs (an Emacs distrubution with pre-configured layers). I’ve since discovered Doom Emacs and have recently made the switch to it. For two reasons mainly: Speed. Doom Emacs is fast! Super Fast! (It has some nice lazy loading) Configuration. Spacemacs did it a lot of magic via its layers configs....