If I recall correctly, Emacs currently does this. During the build it (slowly) loads all of the elisp into memory and then dumps out the memory image of it afte

If I recall correctly, Emacs currently does this. During the build it (slowly) loads all of the elisp into memory and then dumps out the memory image of it after it’s all been compiled. I’m a bit hazy on the details, but I think it involves calling unexec(). https://lwn.net/Articles/673724/ https://lwn.net/Articles/673724/ Edit: just noticed a sibling comment mentioned this too...