From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: scheme gentoo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Why "Do not allow a dumped Emacs to be dumped" in [Emacs-diffs] trunk r116823 Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 12:19:10 +0800 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414476849 21817 80.91.229.3 (28 Oct 2014 06:14:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 06:14:09 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 28 07:14:07 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 1Xj02b-0002ve-5I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 07:14:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37324 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xj02a-0000Hh-Mk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 02:14:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54133) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XiyFW-0003iX-FH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 00:19:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XiyFT-0006wO-HM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 00:19:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ob0-x22d.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c01::22d]:48130) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XiyFT-0006wA-CH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2014 00:19:11 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-ob0-f173.google.com with SMTP id wn1so2439460obc.18 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 21:19:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=AQKeaDBRsOdg4lAHsDI6Cn076CJ8cQCf8/BvIuc5oJ0=; b=B8GqtL5IGIDZQ9YGxW9oEDUx+Jszb1aM7xgv5iUjjMXajjGFUxGwFT8nEBzenREOgK wmlWvNwixnnrjTY92p1rl6ASmcEAdZIebqH808MbsuSX6XpAi489drX3L8LDAuAU5LFI O4fWIl8LzaWiVws0Yg6bL0uIh386fnjiX9gtmbV1qPqt9A13OuSiW2o3Hq3VLdWhk4yO Y+Gg0XenT6/y7jxh+mrbHy2g/dokAsJeW3V0W1TK8GPEfNwNeULZshiJ4sIiLfFCnakm PsZjvQWzryk4B5d/fYSuP+gfFFQe/Sh/URTd0AWe2bYGFlyWA3GDdm6wFwuvUhcSD1rh lZcA== X-Received: by 10.60.159.198 with SMTP id xe6mr213740oeb.44.1414469950396; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 21:19:10 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.76.168.10 with HTTP; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 21:19:10 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4003:c01::22d X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 02:13:43 -0400 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:175915 Archived-At: In this commit [1] seven month ago, changelog says "Always prohibit dumping a dumped Emacs". I don't understand why. "/usr/bin/emacs" is already dumped from temacs, so this commit prohibits me from dumping "/usr/bin/emacs" again. But as emacswiki [2] said, dumping emacs can greatly reduce emacs start up time. And I don't see any disadvantage of dumped emacs (trunk version with this commit undo). I think this commit should be partly reverted. Jia [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2014-03/msg00212.html [2] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DumpingEmacs