From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Time to drop the pre-dump phase in the build? Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 18:23:43 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20140110191530.5772E38019B@snark.thyrsus.com> <52D071EC.4090607@dancol.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389396238 29693 80.91.229.3 (10 Jan 2014 23:23:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 23:23:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 11 00:24:04 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W1lQp-0006mR-LP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 00:24:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59479 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1lQp-0007ej-8A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 18:24:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42529) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1lQf-0007dW-0Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 18:24:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1lQX-0000Uc-0F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 18:23:52 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:16075) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1lQW-0000UQ-Sg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 18:23:44 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFxKG9/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgeBsEtkQoDiGGcGYFegxU X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFxKG9/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgeBsEtkQoDiGGcGYFegxU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="44691246" Original-Received: from 69-196-161-189.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.161.189]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 10 Jan 2014 18:23:44 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 8F6396045A; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 18:23:43 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <52D071EC.4090607@dancol.org> (Daniel Colascione's message of "Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:19:24 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:168052 Archived-At: > That's why the XEmacs portable dumper is better than the current Emacs > setup. Right, a portable dumper would be nice to have. Tho I don't know enough of the details to know what are the downsides (e.g. does it require relocation? If so that means the file can't just be mmap'd read-only and shared between processes, right?). Stefan