Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file

[Phillip Lord]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 21:59:08 +0200
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> 
>> So my next idea would be to come up with a smaller loadup.el which
>> only loads the stuff that is needed for temacs to start.  I didn't try
>> that yet, but I did think that Phillip's work on ldefs-boot might just
>> be a good starting point: those ldefs-boot-*.el files might be just
>> what we need.
>
> Oh, and more more thought: there could be a separate, smaller loadup
> file for batch invocations, since speed of startup in that mode is
> somewhat more important than in the interactive mode.


loadup would need refactoring anyway. It doesn't just loadup at the
moment. It also dumps and kills Emacs. It's also got some strange
syntactic constraints because the Makefile does some sed based parsing
of it.

Phil