From: "John Wiegley" <johnw@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Elisp containers
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 11:25:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2k1nxnp19.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvpnxpfao5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 07 Sep 2018 14:08:59 -0400")
>>>>> "SM" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:
>> I think it costs <50ms to spawn an Emacs child process using async.el to
>> load and query something in it.
SM> Yes, maybe it's good enough, indeed.
Conceivably, because that child process doesn't need to use windowing or any
other features, it would be possible to dump an even smaller Emacs binary
which only has support for "running headless".
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-07 18:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-07 14:38 Elisp containers Stefan Monnier
2018-09-07 17:54 ` John Wiegley
2018-09-07 18:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-07 18:25 ` John Wiegley [this message]
2018-09-07 18:04 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-09-07 20:13 ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-08 19:25 ` Vladimir Sedach
2018-09-09 18:53 ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-08 5:14 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-08 5:45 ` Helmut Eller
2018-09-08 17:56 ` Stefan Monnier
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