Re: Deferring native compilation finalization until idle

On Sat, Jul 25, 2026 at 10:38 AM, Lynn Winebarger < [email protected] > wrote:

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> On Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 12:23 PM Aaron Jensen < aaronjensen@ gmail. com (
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>> No, this is not what the problem is. That's the thing that I'm saying has
>> been pretty well established in this thread, though it seems not well
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>> The problem is that macOS, upon first *loading* the bundle in the main
>> Emacs process will undergo a security check (the one disabled by the
>> entitlements call you posted). This is a synchronous, blocking operation.
>> MacOS does not allow the process to load the bundle until it has verified
>> it, so the load is blocking.
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> Just out of curiosity, could this be approached by treating the
> verification step as part of the compilation?  Could the library be
> verified while loaded from some non-standard location (in an asynchronous
> instance of Emacs) then moved to the ordinary eln cache directory?  Or, if
> it must be verified in place, only load verified libraries implicitly
> (launching asynchronous instances to do the verification load as
> necessary)?
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> Lynn
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This is what is detailed in PROBLEMS, effectively adding validation/first load to the async worker compilation step.

Aaron

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