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LinuxCon: A tale of two bootcharts

LinuxCon: A tale of two bootcharts

Posted Aug 26, 2010 18:01 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
In reply to: LinuxCon: A tale of two bootcharts by thedevil
Parent article: LinuxCon: A tale of two bootcharts

I thought emacs switched at some point from actually dumping core to more explicitly byte-code compiling the elisp and writing it to files, on account of needing a substantial chunk of optional elisp from a very large library when starting up; dumping only the fundamental stuff was still too slow, and dumping everything would require reloading too much, so they needed a quick way to load individual modules, and this obsoleted the core dump mechanism. But I could be wrong; it's been ages since I've actually watched emacs build.


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