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: size of emacs executable after unicode merge Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:24:22 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200805151529.m4FFTlF1004684@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <482D8435.6060407@gnu.org> <20081030101819.GA15223@orion.lan> <200810311507.m9VF7EAl022755@mothra.ics.uci.edu> <873ai7t7fx.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <87y6zuluxt.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <200811090629.mA96TuV4023397@mothra.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 1226280286 22837 80.91.229.12 (10 Nov 2008 01:24:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:24:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emanuele.giaquinta@gmail.com, handa@m17n.org, cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Dan Nicolaescu , evilborisnet@netscape.net, jasonr@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 10 02:25:47 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 1KzLXF-00053Z-KQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:25:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55024 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KzLW7-0001tE-8P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:24:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KzLW2-0001sn-9l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:24:30 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KzLW0-0001sS-Ed for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:24:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48391 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KzLW0-0001sP-8u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:24:28 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:61231 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KzLVx-0001nz-Pq; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:24:25 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArMEAP8bF0lFxLQU/2dsb2JhbACBdsYhg1iBEQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,571,1220241600"; d="scan'208";a="29597038" Original-Received: from 69-196-180-20.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.180.20]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 09 Nov 2008 20:24:23 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id E7F1289DE; Sun, 9 Nov 2008 20:24:22 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:11:00 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:105515 Archived-At: > The data segment size of the emacs binary went from 4MB before the > unicode-2 merge to 11MB after the merge. > Fixing that is worth a delay. Note: it's not clear how much of those 7MB we can recover. Some of them are undoubtedly actively needed. But, yes, clearly there are several MBs worth of "unnecessary data", some of it is apparently not only dead but even garbage collected. Stefan