From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: make bootstrap Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 10:52:10 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <8738izmwxh.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1393840354 10847 80.91.229.3 (3 Mar 2014 09:52:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 09:52:34 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 03 10:52:42 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WKPY8-0007TE-6c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 10:52:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38655 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WKPY7-0005o9-Ng for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 04:52:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59466) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WKPXx-0005nA-NF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 04:52:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WKPXq-00043f-C9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 04:52:29 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:38774) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WKPXq-00043Z-5N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 04:52:22 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WKPXo-0007H9-U0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 10:52:20 +0100 Original-Received: from x2f43f8f.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.244.63.143]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 10:52:20 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by x2f43f8f.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 10:52:20 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x2f43f8f.dyn.telefonica.de X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:csZn3vtHo6a0rT9xdeXnvL1vfeE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:170092 Archived-At: Fabrice Popineau writes: > I was trying to squeez as much as possible the data to be dumped. > While doing this I noticed that to be able to 'make bootstrap', I need a much > larger area than for building a regular emacs. > Why is this ? I would have expect to build the very same temacs for > bootstraping. > > For a w64 emacs, I need 18Mb for bootstraping and only 10Mb for a regular > emacs. > > It is also possible that I am missing somehting there. > Thanks for clarification. Bootstrapping does not garbage-collect if I remember correctly. It might be worth checking which part of the bootstrap causes the majority of garbage and see whether one can avoid more of it. -- David Kastrup