From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: size of emacs executable after unicode merge Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 09:52:44 -0700 Message-ID: <200805141652.m4EGqikr018644@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> References: <200805140351.m4E3pQuE004549@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210784066 8505 80.91.229.12 (14 May 2008 16:54:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 16:54:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: evilborisnet@netscape.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 14 18:55:02 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JwKFm-0003gT-Uw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 May 2008 18:54:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39908 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JwKF3-0000G9-QH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 May 2008 12:54:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JwKF0-0000Fu-GO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 May 2008 12:54:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JwKEy-0000Fi-Pw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 May 2008 12:54:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45534 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JwKEy-0000Ff-LX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 May 2008 12:54:08 -0400 Original-Received: from sallyv1.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.109]:56275) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JwKEt-00049N-MJ; Wed, 14 May 2008 12:54:04 -0400 X-ICS-MailScanner-Watermark: 1211388764.85724@FoV84VFN2/fa83X7dvkLgw Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by sallyv1.ics.uci.edu (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id m4EGqikr018644; Wed, 14 May 2008 09:52:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Wed, 14 May 2008 12:39:48 -0400") Original-Lines: 24 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:97152 Archived-At: Richard M Stallman writes: > > I see Emacs executable size grew by more than a factor of 2 after > > Unicode merge. (This is on Solaris 7 "sparc-sun-solaris2.7, X > > toolkit", with ancient gcc 3.1.) > > > > Does everyone see that, too? > > Yes, it's noted in admin/FOR-RELEASE > > What caused it to grow so much? Here's what Handa-san said about that: One possibility is that the difference is because of big CJK charset maps loaded while creating emacs from temacs. Just before dumping, loadup.el calls `clear-charset-maps' which sets internal vectors and char-tables for charsets to nil, but the following call of `garbage-collect' doesn't return those free memory. I'll try to convert all encodings of language/*.el files to utf-8 so that Emacs doesn't have to load charset maps in loadup.el.