GNU bug report logs - #4287
reducing emacs size by more frequent garbage-collect calls in loadup.el

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
Cc: monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 4287 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#4287: reducing emacs size by more frequent garbage-collect	calls in loadup.el
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:00:33 +0300

> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:09:10 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
> Cc: 4287 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
> 
> --- loadup.el.~1.180.~	2009-08-20 23:31:53.000000000 -0700
> +++ loadup.el	2009-08-29 23:02:34.000000000 -0700
> @@ -57,30 +57,49 @@
>  (setq buffer-undo-list t)
>  
>  (load "emacs-lisp/byte-run")
> +(garbage-collect)
>  (load "emacs-lisp/backquote")
> +(garbage-collect)
>  (load "subr")
> +(garbage-collect)
>  
>  ;; We specify .el in case someone compiled version.el by mistake.
>  (load "version.el")
> +(garbage-collect)

Perhaps a new function `load-and-gc' would be a good idea.

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