Using emacs' unexec to speed Python startup (was Re: [Python-Dev] Startup time)

Daniel Berlin dberlin@dberlin.org
Mon, 19 May 2003 23:06:01 -0400


On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 11:48  AM, Jeff Epler wrote:

> On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 10:39:33AM -0500, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>> I assume none of this stuff will work on Windows.
>
> there *is* a "unexnt.c" in xemacs,
Unused.
Xemacs uses the dumper.c portable dumper by default on NT nowadays.

If you were to choose an unexec, you'd thus want the one from emacs, 
since it's presumably still maintained.

>  and "unexw32.c" in emacs.