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> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 07:44:50 -0800
> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
> Cc: alan@idiocy.org, angelo.g0@libero.it, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> That the dump-array proposal caps
> the size of the dump (which will probably break user redumping) and that strip(1) breaks the concatenation
> approach suggests that maybe the existing separate file option is right after all.

I do indeed think that we should make the separate file method stable
and collect some experience with it, before consider more advanced
and/or clever approaches.