Re: minitar.c does not compile in latest CVS on Windows 2000
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Jonathan Harris spake:
Nix wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Jonathan Harris moaned:
I resemble that remark!
(I really should revise my autoattributor to stop it being automatically
insulting to people. :) )
True - on Win32 none of the pdumped stuff is shared between
processes. I can see that this might be a more serious issue on
multiuser UNIX boxes.
It was the original raison d'etre of dumping. But these days it's
questionable how much it's worth it; the average XEmacs memory hit is
probably far above the couple of megabytes saved by dumping, so the only
remaining advantage of dumping is saving startup time.
--
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England and America does not involve crossing the equator.'
--- pir