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Re: reducing emacs size by more frequent garbage-collect in loadup.el
From: |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: reducing emacs size by more frequent garbage-collect in loadup.el |
Date: |
Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:00:58 +0900 |
Stefan Monnier writes:
> I'd rather not uglify loadup.el with tons of calls to garbage-collect,
> but maybe it's OK to replace all calls to load by calls to load&gc.
> BTW, how does it affect the time to dump Emacs?
I don't recall the mechanism offhand, but XEmacs has always (for
values of "always" == as long as I've known anything about the dump
process) gc'd after every load during dump. This has caused zero
complaints that I am aware of.
For developers, there's an optional --quickbuild configure option
which disables GC entirely during the default make (as well as not
generating info or DOC or finder.el, etc). Obviously not something
you want for a production Emacs, but may be just the ticket for people
doing delicate work on the C code or Lisp primitives.