From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: reducing emacs size by more frequent garbage-collect in loadup.el
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:32:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8wibe1u6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200907261756.n6QHuRSS010699@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:56:27 -0700 (PDT)")
> As the Subject says, replacing each `load' line in loadup.el with
> `load' + `garbage-collect' will reduce the size of the stripped emacs
> binary: (.7 is before, .8 is after the change)
> $ ls -l emacs-23.1.50.8 emacs-23.1.50.7
> -rwx------ 1 dann dann 6722788 Jul 24 14:20 emacs-23.1.50.8*
> -rwx------ 1 dann dann 6857956 Jul 24 14:20 emacs-23.1.50.7*
> $ size emacs-23.1.50.8 emacs-23.1.50.7
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 1883659 4833256 0 6716915 667df3 emacs-23.1.50.8
> 1883659 4968424 0 6852083 688df3 emacs-23.1.50.7
> so we get about 2% reduction by doing something very simple and safe...
> [This happens because loading multiple files generate more garbage that
> can be collected, but it is not returned to the OS, so it appears in
> the dumped image].
> Should we make this change?
I'd rather not uglify loadup.el with tons of calls to garbage-collect,
but maybe it's OK to replace all calls to load by calls to load&gc.
BTW, how does it affect the time to dump Emacs?
Another way to win similar improvements might be to lower the value of
gc-cons-threshold and friends during loadup.el.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-26 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-26 17:56 reducing emacs size by more frequent garbage-collect in loadup.el Dan Nicolaescu
2009-07-26 18:32 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-07-26 18:57 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-07-26 21:06 ` Ken Raeburn
2009-07-26 22:19 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-16 19:06 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-07-27 2:00 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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