Re: Margin kerning

[Valeriy E. Ushakov]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 08:52:28 -0500, Geert Janssen wrote:

> I remember that Emacs used to use a similar dumping trick to
> pre-initialize all its Lisp contents prior to starting up as
> a text-editor. Their Lisp structures have pointers too.
> I don't quite recall whether they suffered from the pointer "swizzling"
> or maybe they had a solution to that. Just a thought...

Yeah.  The problem, though, is that it's not portable (unless it's
changed since last I looked).  I had to write emacs 18.something
(un)dumper for the funny svr3 system I was using at the time.  It was
not fun.  (Well, it was, but maintenance-wise this approach would be a
big burden).

SY, Uwe
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