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What new options are worth considering in the configure command when building Emacs 32 from source?

A Google search mentions

(1) --with-mps or --with-igc for the new incremental garbage collector

(2) --with-native-compilation=aot for native compiling

(3) --with-pgtk Pure GTK, this seems to be for Wayland, not sure of its effect or use in X11 environments, unless I switch to a Wayland system. Does it have unwanted side effects in an X11 environment

(4) --with-tree-sitter - Links the high-performance syntax-parsing library into the core editor C code. I don't do much programming at the moment, but it will come in handy

All of them seem easy enough but configure --help does not list the --with-mps and --with-igc options so I assume my system lacks some libraries they require.

The latter three were available in Emacs 31, but not the first, so I don't see why the search mentioned them unless they are considered more mature now to justify adding..

Are there any other Emacs 32 options not available in previous versions worth considering?

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