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reducing emacs size by more frequent garbage-collect calls in loadup.el

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Message #31 received at 4287 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 4287 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4287: reducing emacs size by more frequent garbage-collect 
	calls in loadup.el
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:45:03 +0200

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 22:04, Stefan Monnier<monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> Sorry, too ugly to be worth the few bytes (especially since these are
> bytes you'll be using anyway as soon as you start Emacs).

I've often wondered why there is no `after-load-hook' or
`after-load-functions', run directly from (the end of) Fload. Then we
could do now

--- loadup.el	21 Aug 2009 06:19:28 -0000	1.180
+++ loadup.el	30 Aug 2009 20:44:10 -0000
@@ -57,4 +57,5 @@
 (setq buffer-undo-list t)

+(add-hook 'after-load-hook 'garbage-collect)
 (load "emacs-lisp/byte-run")
 (load "emacs-lisp/backquote")
@@ -286,4 +287,5 @@
 (load "site-init" t)
 (setq current-load-list nil)
+(remove-hook 'after-load-hook 'garbage-collect)

 ;; Write the value of load-history into fns-VERSION.el,

which is not so easy or elegant with `after-load-alist' (whose
regexp-matching functionality is implemented in elisp, AFAICS).

    Juanma

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