From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
Cc: 4287@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, bug-gnu-emacs <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#4287: reducing emacs size by more frequent garbage-collect calls in loadup.el
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:34:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwviqg69ue8.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908291841.n7TIfw4E003762@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:41:58 -0700 (PDT)")
> As the Subject says, replacing each `load' line in loadup.el with
> `load' + `garbage-collect' will reduce the size of the stripped emacs
> binary: (.7 is before, .8 is after the change)
> $ ls -l emacs-23.1.50.8 emacs-23.1.50.7
> -rwx------ 1 dann dann 6722788 Jul 24 14:20 emacs-23.1.50.8*
> -rwx------ 1 dann dann 6857956 Jul 24 14:20 emacs-23.1.50.7*
> $ size emacs-23.1.50.8 emacs-23.1.50.7
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 1883659 4833256 0 6716915 667df3 emacs-23.1.50.8
> 1883659 4968424 0 6852083 688df3 emacs-23.1.50.7
> so we get about 2% reduction by doing something very simple and safe...
> [This happens because loading multiple files generate more garbage that
> can be collected, but it is not returned to the OS, so it appears in
> the dumped image].
> See the discussion on this topic on emacs-devel:
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/113176
Can you show the patch?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-29 21:34 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <200909170617.n8H6HvDs020712@godzilla.ics.uci.edu>
2009-08-29 18:41 ` bug#4287: reducing emacs size by more frequent garbage-collect calls in loadup.el Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-29 21:34 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-08-30 6:09 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-30 18:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-30 20:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-30 20:45 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-08-31 14:46 ` bug#4287: reducing emacs size by more frequent garbage-collect Stefan Monnier
2009-09-01 11:44 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-09-01 16:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-01 21:33 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-08-30 23:55 ` bug#4287: reducing emacs size by more frequent garbage-collect calls in loadup.el Juri Linkov
2009-08-31 4:25 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-31 14:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-01 0:57 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-09-17 6:25 ` bug#4287: marked as done (reducing emacs size by more frequent garbage-collect calls in loadup.el) Emacs bug Tracking System
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