Re: --pdump

On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 03:52:19AM +0100, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: Here are the result for twenty invocations of: [tx]emacs -batch -vanilla -kill > & /dev/null The /dev/null redirection because the stream console correct initialisation in the pdump case has the side effect of allowing the Loading... messages to show for the auto-autoloads. Or maybe the reason is somewhere else. Anyway. pdump: 9.150u 1.920s 0:11.08 99.9% 0+0k 0+0io 23971pf+0w 9.050u 2.020s 0:11.09 99.8% 0+0k 0+0io 23970pf+0w 8.970u 2.030s 0:11.13 98.8% 0+0k 0+0io 23970pf+0w 9.020u 2.050s 0:11.08 99.9% 0+0k 0+0io 23970pf+0w 8.920u 2.150s 0:11.13 99.4% 0+0k 0+0io 23970pf+0w non-pdump: 8.380u 2.360s 0:10.80 99.4% 0+0k 0+0io 24730pf+0w 8.400u 2.300s 0:10.89 98.2% 0+0k 0+0io 24730pf+0w 8.380u 2.290s 0:10.67 100.0% 0+0k 0+0io 24730pf+0w 8.510u 2.170s 0:10.79 98.9% 0+0k 0+0io 24730pf+0w 8.350u 2.380s 0:10.76 99.7% 0+0k 0+0io 24730pf+0w ../xemacs-wk/configure '--prefix=/sw/xemacs/install' '--with-mule' '--cflags=-g -O9 -Wall -Wno-switch' '--debug=no' '--error-checking=none' I don't really understand what is involved in the somehow lower usage of system resources. End result is a 2% increase of startup time. I wouldn't lose sleep other that (but I don't like the lack of sharing, though). OG.