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Re: Time to drop the pre-dump phase in the build?
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Glenn Morris |
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Re: Time to drop the pre-dump phase in the build? |
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Sat, 11 Jan 2014 15:13:13 -0500 |
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Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> That's why the XEmacs portable dumper is better than the current Emacs
>> setup.
>
> Right, a portable dumper would be nice to have.
> Tho I don't know enough of the details to know what are the downsides
> (e.g. does it require relocation? If so that means the file can't just
> be mmap'd read-only and shared between processes, right?).
Apparently there was an Emacs 21 patch, but AFAIK it never appeared:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2002-04/msg00723.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02194.html
And it broke in 22:
http://knagano.blogspot.com/2005/10/portable-dumper-revisited.html
If you read Japanese (I don't), there's a paper at:
http://lc.linux.or.jp/lc2002/papers/nagano0920h.pdf
(Has some startup times listed!)
Source: http://www.sodan.org/~knagano/emacs/pdump
- Re: Time to drop the pre-dump phase in the build?, (continued)
- Re: Time to drop the pre-dump phase in the build?, Daniel Colascione, 2014/01/10
- Re: Time to drop the pre-dump phase in the build?, David Kastrup, 2014/01/10
- Re: Time to drop the pre-dump phase in the build?, Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/10
- Re: Time to drop the pre-dump phase in the build?, Daniel Colascione, 2014/01/10
- Re: Time to drop the pre-dump phase in the build?, Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/10
- Re: Time to drop the pre-dump phase in the build?, Daniel Colascione, 2014/01/10
- Re: Time to drop the pre-dump phase in the build?, Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/11
- Re: Time to drop the pre-dump phase in the build?, Daniel Colascione, 2014/01/11
- Re: Time to drop the pre-dump phase in the build?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/01/11
- Re: Time to drop the pre-dump phase in the build?,
Glenn Morris <=