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Re: compiled lisp file format (Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file)
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: compiled lisp file format (Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file) |
Date: |
Mon, 29 May 2017 20:39:22 +0300 |
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 09:37:15 -0700
> Cc: Emacs developers <address@hidden>
>
> > If we want standardized object/executable format specifically for the
> > preloaded environment, perhaps using the native format by way of the C
> > compiler is a better choice. I think this may have come up in the
> > discussion before. The big loss there is the ability to create a new saved
> > environment without having a C compiler handy, but it seems like a thing
> > few people are likely to want to do, and even fewer non-developers who
> > might not be able to install a compiler.
>
> Yes, this is my preferred solution too; I was the one who made that
> suggestion.
> Although Eli didn't like the idea at the time, perhaps there will come a day
> when we revisit it. It should be faster than even Guile's ELF-based loading,
> which is already plenty fast.
I have no doubt it will be faster. My problem with this alternative
is that I believe maintaining it will need experts on C and C
compilers that we cannot rely on having available.
- Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file, (continued)
- Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file, Daniel Colascione, 2017/05/18
- compiled lisp file format (Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file), Ken Raeburn, 2017/05/21
- Re: compiled lisp file format (Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file), Paul Eggert, 2017/05/28
- Re: compiled lisp file format (Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file), Ken Raeburn, 2017/05/29
- Re: compiled lisp file format (Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file), Paul Eggert, 2017/05/29
- Re: compiled lisp file format (Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file),
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: compiled lisp file format (Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file), Paul Eggert, 2017/05/29
- Re: compiled lisp file format (Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file), Eli Zaretskii, 2017/05/29
- Re: compiled lisp file format (Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file), Paul Eggert, 2017/05/29
- Re: compiled lisp file format (Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file), Ken Raeburn, 2017/05/30
- Re: compiled lisp file format (Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file), Eli Zaretskii, 2017/05/30
- Re: compiled lisp file format (Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file), John Wiegley, 2017/05/21
Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file, Philipp Stephani, 2017/05/01