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Re: make bootstrap
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David Kastrup |
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Re: make bootstrap |
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Mon, 03 Mar 2014 10:52:10 +0100 |
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Fabrice Popineau <address@hidden> writes:
> I was trying to squeez as much as possible the data to be dumped.
> While doing this I noticed that to be able to 'make bootstrap', I need a much
> larger area than for building a regular emacs.
> Why is this ? I would have expect to build the very same temacs for
> bootstraping.
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> For a w64 emacs, I need 18Mb for bootstraping and only 10Mb for a regular
> emacs.
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> It is also possible that I am missing somehting there.
> Thanks for clarification.
Bootstrapping does not garbage-collect if I remember correctly. It
might be worth checking which part of the bootstrap causes the majority
of garbage and see whether one can avoid more of it.
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David Kastrup