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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: BASE_PURESIZE
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:47:25 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910240647.n9O6lPqi002971@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ljj1bdyp.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:41:50 +0900")

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:

  > Juanma Barranquero writes:
  >  > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 13:00, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
  >  > 
  >  > > I looked at the values of pure_size vs pure_bytes_used in several
  >  > > builds on several platforms, and I see that we are wasting at least
  >  > > 130KB:
  > [...]
  >  > on Windows I get
  > [...]
  >  > or about 252 KiB wasted.
  > 
  > Three comments:
  > 
  > 1.  XEmacs abandoned pure space years ago on the assumption that (bugs
  >     aside) copy-on-write means that dumped text will be shared anyway.
  >     Is that incorrect?

Do you have generational GC? If not, all the data in the dumped image
dumped image will be GCed every time, and that means lots of pages will
get written to, so won't be shareable.




  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-24  6:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-23 11:00 BASE_PURESIZE Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-23 11:39 ` BASE_PURESIZE Andreas Schwab
2009-10-23 14:10   ` BASE_PURESIZE Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-23 14:24     ` BASE_PURESIZE Andreas Schwab
2009-10-23 14:35       ` BASE_PURESIZE Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-23 14:50         ` BASE_PURESIZE Andreas Schwab
2009-10-24 10:05     ` BASE_PURESIZE Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-24 10:37       ` BASE_PURESIZE Andreas Schwab
2009-10-24 13:18         ` BASE_PURESIZE Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-24 17:27           ` BASE_PURESIZE Dan Nicolaescu
2009-10-24 19:01             ` BASE_PURESIZE Stefan Monnier
2009-10-25  8:24               ` BASE_PURESIZE Dan Nicolaescu
2009-10-30  1:17                 ` defcustom standard-value (was: Re: BASE_PURESIZE) Dan Nicolaescu
2009-10-24 19:04             ` BASE_PURESIZE Chong Yidong
2009-10-24 19:16               ` BASE_PURESIZE Dan Nicolaescu
2009-10-23 11:58 ` BASE_PURESIZE Dan Nicolaescu
2009-10-23 14:24 ` BASE_PURESIZE Juanma Barranquero
2009-10-24  4:41   ` BASE_PURESIZE Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-10-24  6:47     ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2009-10-24  8:24       ` BASE_PURESIZE Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-10-24 10:22     ` BASE_PURESIZE Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-24 11:14       ` BASE_PURESIZE Stephen J. Turnbull
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-05  2:16 BASE_PURESIZE Nick Roberts
2006-08-05  9:41 ` BASE_PURESIZE Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-05 16:23   ` BASE_PURESIZE Reiner Steib
2006-08-05 18:51     ` BASE_PURESIZE Richard Stallman
2006-08-05 20:07       ` BASE_PURESIZE Reiner Steib
2006-08-06  4:43         ` BASE_PURESIZE Richard Stallman
2006-08-06  9:19           ` BASE_PURESIZE Reiner Steib
2006-08-06 19:40         ` BASE_PURESIZE Reiner Steib
     [not found]           ` <jebqqx393g.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
2006-08-07  3:53             ` BASE_PURESIZE Eli Zaretskii

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