[3758] in Athena Bugs
Re: (RTPC) Version 6.3B: emacs not stripped
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Thu Nov 30 18:07:22 1989
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 89 18:06:29 EST
From: Ken Raeburn <Raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@PIT-MANAGER.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Jonathan I. Kamens's message of Thu, 30 Nov 89 01:41:44 -0500,
Actually, that should only be the case with AFS. Paging in emacs from
RVD or NFS should bring in only the portions of the executable that
are necessary for execution. (Go look up the description of "demand
paged".) As I understand it, AFS isn't smart enough to grok
demand-paged executables.
Furthermore, emacs has the ability to generate "dumps" containing
preloaded data; that is actually part of the build process for the
binary we install. If you wanted, you could squirrel away somewhere a
version that has all your private initializations loaded up, plus
rmail, sendmail, ispell, and anything else you might want. But this
requires a symbol table.
In short, I think emacs is a reasonable exception to the rule.
