From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bloat in the Emacs Windows package Date: Fri, 03 May 2019 09:49:26 +0300 Message-ID: <83k1f8nibt.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87mukocyze.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83v9zceb3n.fsf@gnu.org> <87tvev1epx.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83v9zbcesn.fsf@gnu.org> <87a7gnypsx.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83sguecxth.fsf@gnu.org> <87r29t22pk.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87ef5t9h18.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87ftq47mq6.fsf@russet.org.uk> <877ebf8g8v.fsf@russet.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="28667"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk To: =?utf-8?Q?Bj=C3=B6rn?= Lindqvist Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 03 23:20:28 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hMfbV-0012u5-M3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 May 2019 23:20:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35514 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hMS1Y-0000id-IN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 May 2019 02:50:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:36344) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hMS0w-0000ha-FO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 May 2019 02:49:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58858) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hMS0v-0002l4-Lg; Fri, 03 May 2019 02:49:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3292 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hMS0u-0006k0-LU; Fri, 03 May 2019 02:49:45 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from =?utf-8?Q?Bj=C3=B6rn?= Lindqvist on Fri, 3 May 2019 03:06:33 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:236131 Archived-At: > From: Björn Lindqvist > Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 03:06:33 +0200 > Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > I tried to remove it and emacs still works fine. But it feels like > it starts a little slower. Of course. That's the whole reason for having that file. > Perhaps emacs could regenerate that file if it detects it is > missing. I don't think Emacs should write any files without user's say-so. There is a function you can invoke to produce a dump file, so an unusual situation such as this one does have a solution.