From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 14:18:46 -0500 Message-ID: References: <871szqwu51.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <831szqhbc2.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1itt79z.fsf_-_@users.sourceforge.net> <7baa18d4-2b09-caa8-005e-29008a383ad1@cs.ucla.edu> <83mvhwrgd5.fsf@gnu.org> <8539f38f-9a11-44c3-4de7-bb974c96206c@cs.ucla.edu> <8360ojpndr.fsf@gnu.org> <83shrnm0k1.fsf@gnu.org> <075B0922-F07A-4FBA-AE71-027E964A5ED4@raeburn.org> <54AAC13A-CF56-4393-A932-DC6CBBF51259@raeburn.org> <3CC6BB36-1794-4202-8243-132E0345B236@raeburn.org> <52BDCC33-546C-4F47-A230-00EBC813B038@raeburn.org> <15CF14CC-C7DE-44BA-AC7D-F0BF1F160979@raeburn.org> <9463F91F-DB82-48E1-BE01-1E2BC8DA0766@raeburn.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1481484069 27526 195.159.176.226 (11 Dec 2016 19:21:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 19:21:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ken Raeburn Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 11 20:21:06 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cG9gG-00069u-Ag for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Dec 2016 20:21:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56887 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cG9gK-0004L8-IF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Dec 2016 14:21:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46423) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cG9e4-0003HV-Kx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Dec 2016 14:18:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cG9e4-0003lP-08 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Dec 2016 14:18:48 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:46328) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cG9e2-0003jr-MP; Sun, 11 Dec 2016 14:18:46 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cG9e2-0008Jq-8H; Sun, 11 Dec 2016 14:18:46 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Ken Raeburn on Sun, 11 Dec 2016 08:34:01 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:210306 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > * Larger obarray. After startup, my Linux/GNU/X11 build has over > * 15k symbols, and my Mac build has over 21k. The old obarray > * size of 1511 meant average chain lengths of over 10 and 14. > * Shorter chains mean less time spent in oblookup. And extra > * slots are cheap. This may be a good idea, but it has nothing to do with any particular method of startup or dumping. So how about doing it unconditionally? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.