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From: throopw@agarn.dg.com (Wayne A. Throop)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Toolplaces for NeWS
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Date: 1 Mar 89 19:52:39 GMT
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> frode@m2cs.uu.no (Frode Odegard)
> GNU Emacs has some nice code that it uses for loading faster. It
> will load the ELISP code into its data segment and then produce a core
> dump of itself. Then this core dump is converted into a new executable
> which has all the ELISP stuff preloaded [...]
> Comments from Real Unix Hackers? [I'm just a Modulean, I write my
> own operating systems ;-)]

Well, clearly Frode is using some meaning of "nice" with which I am
totally unfamiliar.  This one little hack contributes somewhere
between two-thirds and three-quarters of the difficulty in porting
GNU Emacs.  If instead of producing a core dump, it write exactly the
data elements needed in the form of a C module to compile and link
in with a "generation II" editor executable, the code would be more
portable, more maintainable, and in all ways better than it is now.

IMHO.

Hmpf.

--
The LISP programmer knows the value of everything but the cost of nothing.
                              --- Alan J. Perlis
Wayne Throop      <the-known-world>!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!throopw