From: lars@nocrew.org (Lars Brinkhoff)
Subject: [TUHS] Emacs and undump
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 08:19:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86y3wsp0cq.fsf@molnjunk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FA64C9B-4EBB-4EDA-8BD7-B59DAE6BF650@tfeb.org> (Tim Bradshaw's message of "Mon, 27 Feb 2017 06:41:56 +0000")
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Tim Bradshaw wrote:
>> David wrote:
>> I remember that GNU Emacs launched the first time and then dumped
>> itself out as a core file. Each subsequent launch would then ‘undump’
>> itself back into memory. All this because launching emacs the first
>> time required compiling all that lisp code.
> It still works like that. Indeed that's the conventional way that
> Lisp systems tend to work for delivering applications
Emacs came from ITS, and many Lisps derive from Maclisp which also came
from ITS. In ITS, it was common for applications to be dumped into a
loadable core image, even if they were written in assembly language.
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2017-02-26 19:16 ` David
2017-02-26 19:28 ` Mantas Mikulėnas
2017-02-27 6:41 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-02-27 7:19 ` Lars Brinkhoff [this message]
2017-02-27 7:26 ` Warner Losh
2017-02-27 8:12 ` Nick Downing
2017-02-27 14:33 ` Derek Fawcus
2017-02-27 14:50 ` Nick Downing
2017-02-27 15:43 ` Derek Fawcus
2017-02-27 16:43 ` Joerg Schilling
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2017-02-28 0:02 ` Nick Downing
2017-02-27 12:59 ` tfb
2017-02-27 10:35 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-02-27 15:13 ` Tony Finch
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2017-02-27 10:24 ` Johnny Billquist
2017-02-27 10:30 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-02-27 10:47 ` Johnny Billquist
2017-02-27 14:04 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-02-28 11:55 ` Ronald Natalie
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2017-02-27 20:09 ` Johnny Billquist
2017-02-27 20:26 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-02-27 21:06 ` Johnny Billquist
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