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| From: | Ali Bahrami |
| Subject: | Re: Removal of unexec support from glibc malloc |
| Date: | Mon, 18 Jan 2016 17:56:55 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 |
On 1/18/16 5:45 PM, Wolfgang Jenkner wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18 2016, Ali Bahrami wrote:Some of them didn't have unexec working, and we'd just use temacs instead. It took on the order of 5-10 seconds to start up and become useful, rather than starting instantaneously. That was nearly 20 years ago.But I guess you loaded pre-compiled elisp files on those machines?
To the best of my recollection, it used the pre-compiled .elc files. Byte compiling the lisp is completely portable and under emacs's control, so it doesn't have the same sort of issues as unexec. - Ali
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