Re: Pure space

[Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Pip Cet <pipcet@protonmail.com> writes:
>
>> So, even if the decision is to keep pure space, can we at least make
>> pure space overflow a fatal condition?
>
> Can't pure space be eliminated without affecting unexec?  It's not as
> though every Lisp object in a dumped Emacs must be pure, and eliminating
> read only objects would be a welcome change whether by itself or for
> unexec builds.

Btw, I get the impression that help facilities generate plenty of large
strings that are ultimately dumped, so it would be useful to measure the
size of pure space with and without the string deduplication
optimization enabled, and decide whether it would be worth preserving in
some form.