Re: Preview: portable dumper

[Paul Eggert]

On 11/30/2016 01:03 PM, John Wiegley wrote:
> I don't like hearing ultimatums, on either side, over what amounts to
> an efficiency issue.

Yes, I've heard too many ultimatums too.

However, this is not simply an efficiency issue. Emacs currently does 
not run on FreeBSD arm64 because of the unexec problem (Bug#24892), and 
it's quite likely that the set of platforms where Emacs does not run 
will grow as platforms change memory management techniques. We should 
not reject a working fix merely because we hypothesize that there might 
be a better improvement that someone might implement later.