Re: Any advantages to recompile Emacs...

[Ian Eure]

On Jan 22, 2009, at 1:56 PM, Francis Moreau wrote:

> Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:
>
> > Think of Unicode (8 bit -> 32 bit)! And if your hardware is 64 bit,
> > then GNU Emacs could have been configured and compiled for this,
> > using pointers that large.
>
> Does emacs embed many unicode strings ??
Probably not, and UTF-8 doesn't take any more space unless you use non- 
ASCII characters. For plain text, it's the same size.


> > Did you compile in debug information?
>
> I haven't asked for when doing the './configure' thing so I wouldn't
> expect to have such info...
>
> [me checking]
>
> Well, this 'configure' thing compiled emacs with the debug info
> (damn!), so after striping emacs, the size looks more reasonable:
> 9.9M.
The default behavior of GCC is to include debugging symbols. You need  
to explicitly remove them if they're not needed.

 - Ian