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I heard emacs did that but went one step further, they dump the memory of the interpreter post-init* and just load it into memory when starting. * Some early s

by im3w1l 6y ago

I heard emacs did that but went one step further, they dump the memory of the interpreter post-init* and just load it into memory when starting. * Some early step in the init process. Many things are still interpreted at init.

andreareina 6y ago
"emacs unexec" is the search term if you're looking for it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21394916 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21394916 https://lwn.net/Articles/707615/ https://lwn.net/Articles/707615/ "The Emacs dumper dispute" https://lwn.net/Articles/673724/ https://lwn.net/Articles/673724/ "Removing support for Emacs unexec from Glibc"