Re: size of emacs executable after unicode merge

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > Maybe simpler would be to build this table as we do now, then print it
>> > into a file.  Then the "dump" doesn't need to build the table, it can
>> > just read it from the file.
>> Handa-san, could you comment on this?
> I think it doesn't work.  Emacs needs that table and the other
> mapping char-tables to decode non-ascii characters in files
> that are loaded before dumping.

IIUC Emacs only needs those tables when loading files that use some
particular encodings.  E.g. it doesn't need it to read files using
Unicode encodings.  So couldn't we make sure all the files read during
the dump are using Utf-8 or utf-8-emacs?  Isn't that already the case
for all *.elc files?

> If it is impossible to exclude garbage-colleted data (especially
> char-tables) from the dumpled file, it seems that the only way is not
> to build those char-tables.  But it requires rather heavy changes to
> files loaded before dumped.

What kind of changes?


        Stefan