27 Feb
2017
27 Feb
'17
1:28 a.m.
On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 9:16 PM, David <david(a)kdbarto.org> wrote:
I ported GNU Emacs to the Celerity product line mostly
because most of the
programmers there wanted it over vi. Not me, I’m a vi guy.
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 does that, doesn't it?
https://lwn.net/Articles/673724/
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Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity(a)gmail.com>