On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Jonathan Harris moaned:
I would recommend not turning portable dumping off since it is now
the
default option for UNIX and Win32, and there's no reason not to use
it.
... except for a couple of megs of extra memory consumption per XEmacs
process after the first (as the pdumped stuff, last I checked, got
modified after being loaded, which is not --- cannot be --- the case for
the dumped stuff).
It's true that a couple of pettifogging megabytes is pretty unimportant
given the memory consumption of XEmacs these days, but still...
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--- pir