Re: Building Emacs overflowed pure space

[Kim F. Storm]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> If the string data in the pure storage can be assumed to be completely
>> read-only (including the preloading stage), another hack could be
>> considered.  That is, sharing postfixes of string data among multiple
>> pure strings.  The following experimental patch shows another ~40KB
>> reduction of the pure storage usage.  (A slow and naive but reliable
>> version not using Boyer-Moore also shows the same size of reduction.)
>
I tried the exact the same thing (using the naive version), but the
dumped emacs crashed immediately after loadup, thinking that "nil" was
a filename...  So I didn't think it was safe to do this.


> Cute,
> And it does remove the --cl-dolist-temp-- vs --dolist-temp-- difference.

How?  --do... != c-do...  !?


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