Re: Solaris dldump

[Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>]

Pip Cet <pipcet@protonmail.com> writes:

> Wait, I'm not sure I understand that part.  How does removing pure space
> burden anyone with additional labor, hypothetical or not?

Isn't this theoretical burden the reason that pure space is not to be
removed except along with unexec?

> Also, do the systems that don't support pdumper but do support unexec
> work without dumping, when running temacs directly? It takes very long
> to build Emacs that way, but since we're talking non-free operating
> systems it might be acceptable to ask people to cross-compile for now,
> kind of like we do for the Android builds where the .elc files are
> generated on the build systems.

There is a substantial segment of our users who don't expect Emacs to
start in 5+ seconds, if only judging by the hullabaloo that erupts
whenever startup performance is threatened or even mildly retarded.
Even in the Android port, this penalty is paid once on installation and
a dump file is retained for subsequent initializations of the same
binary.

Anyway, I want pure space gone as much as any of us, I just don't agree
that taking unexec down with it is justified.  Maybe the ELF, XCOFF, and
Windows unexecs, but not the Solaris or DOS ones.