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I don't know if this is still true, but for many years emacs used a horrible hack called "unexec" to obtain this startup performance. https://lwn.net/Articles/

by aftbit 9y ago

I don't know if this is still true, but for many years emacs used a horrible hack called "unexec" to obtain this startup performance. https://lwn.net/Articles/673724/ https://lwn.net/Articles/673724/

Jare 9y ago
That sounds similar to the "snapshot" feature Atom is using.
mitchty 9y ago
It was only true for glibc as well, and its no longer true as unexec got ripped out of glibc recently as only emacs was using it.