Re: Preview: portable dumper

[Daniel Colascione]

On 11/28/2016 11:58 AM, Burton Samograd wrote:
> Excellent idea and good work.  Will this also allow for the dumping of Emacs at 
> arbitrary time after it’s been run, or will there still be issues with that?

In theory. In practice, I want to roll out this work gradually. Step one 
is to land it and keep it off by default --- we don't have to stop using 
unexec just because we want to experiment with a portable dumper.

Later, we'll enable the portable dumper by default, but as an unexec 
replacement, and keep unexec around. Once this arrangement works for a 
few releases, we can delete unexec and talk about dumping at later 
points in Emacs execution history.