From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Time to drop the pre-dump phase in the build?
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 15:13:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v18uumjmzq.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvha9b5spn.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> 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?).
Apparently there was an Emacs 21 patch, but AFAIK it never appeared:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2002-04/msg00723.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02194.html
And it broke in 22:
http://knagano.blogspot.com/2005/10/portable-dumper-revisited.html
If you read Japanese (I don't), there's a paper at:
http://lc.linux.or.jp/lc2002/papers/nagano0920h.pdf
(Has some startup times listed!)
Source: http://www.sodan.org/~knagano/emacs/pdump
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-11 20:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-10 19:15 Time to drop the pre-dump phase in the build? Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-10 19:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-11 6:16 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-11 7:17 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-12 0:16 ` Nix
2014-01-12 3:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-12 3:53 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-11 7:17 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-10 19:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-10 20:09 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-10 20:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-10 20:20 ` Barry Warsaw
2014-01-10 20:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-10 21:06 ` Barry Warsaw
2014-01-10 22:19 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-10 22:58 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-11 0:05 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-10 23:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-11 0:07 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-11 2:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-11 3:37 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-11 5:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-11 5:30 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-11 16:14 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-11 20:13 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
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