From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ian Eure Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Any advantages to recompile Emacs... Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:14:40 -0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232666114 9418 80.91.229.12 (22 Jan 2009 23:15:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:15:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Peter Dyballa , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Francis Moreau Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 23 00:16:27 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LQ8mg-0004To-4d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:16:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47971 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LQ8lN-0003zQ-Vz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:15:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LQ8l2-0003wc-BF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:14:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44378 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LQ8l1-0003vm-SI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:14:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.digg.com ([64.191.203.36]:40492) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LQ8l1-0003ap-KT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:14:43 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.digg.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57794A84FFC; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:14:42 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at X-Spam-Score: -4.493 Original-Received: from mail.digg.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.digg.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id l1LsdefGWhxg; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:14:41 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [10.2.16.254] (diggstage01.digg.com [64.191.203.34]) by mail.digg.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF5C8A84F33; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:14:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:61576 Archived-At: On Jan 22, 2009, at 1:56 PM, Francis Moreau wrote: > Peter Dyballa writes: > >> Think of Unicode (8 bit -> 32 bit)! And if your hardware is 64 bit, >> then GNU Emacs could have been configured and compiled for this, >> using pointers that large. > > Does emacs embed many unicode strings ?? > Probably not, and UTF-8 doesn't take any more space unless you use non- ASCII characters. For plain text, it's the same size. >> Did you compile in debug information? > > I haven't asked for when doing the './configure' thing so I wouldn't > expect to have such info... > > [me checking] > > Well, this 'configure' thing compiled emacs with the debug info > (damn!), so after striping emacs, the size looks more reasonable: > 9.9M. > The default behavior of GCC is to include debugging symbols. You need to explicitly remove them if they're not needed. - Ian