Re: Preview: portable dumper

[Paul Eggert]

On 12/02/2016 06:51 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I mean that bytecomp.el would generate a file in a format which
> pdumper can use (which has various consequences, such as the fact that
> .elc files aren't portable any more).

The format could be easy for pdumper to use but still be portable. For 
example, the pdumper format could use 64-bit little-endian 
representation for Lisp_Object values, even on platforms with 32-bit or 
big-endian Lisp_Objects. Although this would complicate the pdumper and 
slow it down on platforms where the native format doesn't match the 
pdumper representation, the pdumper would still be significantly faster 
than lread.c.