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0 pointsaftbit8y ago0 comments

I don't know if this is still true, but for many years emacs used a horrible hack called "unexec" to obtain this startup performance.

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Jare8y ago

That sounds similar to the "snapshot" feature Atom is using.

It was only true for glibc as well, and its no longer true as unexec got ripped out of glibc recently as only emacs was using it.

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0 pointsaftbit8y ago0 comments

I don't know if this is still true, but for many years emacs used a horrible hack called "unexec" to obtain this startup performance.

Jare8y ago

That sounds similar to the "snapshot" feature Atom is using.

It was only true for glibc as well, and its no longer true as unexec got ripped out of glibc recently as only emacs was using it.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse