From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>,
rms@gnu.org, turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Time to drop the pre-dump phase in the build?
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 22:53:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140112035314.GA32704@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zjn197xv.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
> > XEmacs long ago migrated to a 'portable undumper', whereby (IIRC) the
> > Lisp heap is serialized into a form that is then mmap()ed in at startup
> > time (using a separate file, so unexec() is no longer necessary). It was
> > a lot of work, but doing something similar might be worth considering in
> > the future anyway.
>
> No change of this scale ever happens in Emacs, unless someone steps
> forward and does the job, or most of it. People who want this to
> happen should take notice and act. Talk won't cut it.
Since I raised the possibility: I won't have the bandwidth to do this
in the forseeable future.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-12 3:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-10 19:15 Time to drop the pre-dump phase in the build? Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-10 19:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-11 6:16 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-11 7:17 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-12 0:16 ` Nix
2014-01-12 3:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-12 3:53 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2014-01-11 7:17 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-10 19:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-10 20:09 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-10 20:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-10 20:20 ` Barry Warsaw
2014-01-10 20:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-10 21:06 ` Barry Warsaw
2014-01-10 22:19 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-10 22:58 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-11 0:05 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-10 23:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-11 0:07 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-11 2:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-11 3:37 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-11 5:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-11 5:30 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-11 16:14 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-11 20:13 ` Glenn Morris
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