GNU bug report logs - #23529
Request for fixing randomize_va_space build issues

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 12:20:02 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: fixed

Merged with 13964

Found in version 24.3

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #74 received at 23529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher <at> gmail.com>
Cc: p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 23529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23529: Request for fixing randomize_va_space build issues
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2016 22:11:26 +0300

> From: Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 20:24:19 +0200
> Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com, 23529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> You got me curious, can you explain a bit why it is useful? I always
> thought the reason was about speed, something historical that was
> needed "back then".

If you are loading a lot of code in your init files, you could simply
dump Emacs with all that code loaded.

> AFAIK, nowadays most people that care about speed use autoloads or
> use-package and get under 2-3s of load-time.

Loading a large package can still be slow enough to annoy.  Try
loading Org, for example; then imagine you have several such large
packages to load at startup.
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