Re: New tool to reduce emacs start-up time on Linux

[Blake Miller]

I'd never run emacs as root either. CRIU has to run as root, but the processes it creates when restoring a snapshot are regular non-root processes, just like the one that was checkpointed.

On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 4:22 PM T.V Raman <raman@google.com> wrote:

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

the biggest drawback I  saw at a quick-read was the need to run as root,
 I'd never run emacs as root.>> As the name suggests, it can provide you with the fastest emacs startup
>> time in the west, by using CRIU checkpoint/restore to "clone" emacsen.
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> Hmmm... an "unexec" that's not Emacs-specific, interesting,
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