GNU bug report logs - #6006
recent emacs binary size increase by 800KB

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> gnu.org>

Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:14:03 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: wontfix

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> gnu.org>
To: 6006 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6006: recent emacs binary size increase by 800KB
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:13:50 -0400

Looking at recent emacs builds:

$ ls -l emacs-24*
-rwx------ 1 dann dann 7541146 Apr 15 16:04 emacs-24.0.50.1*
-rwx------ 1 dann dann 7545209 Apr 15 17:49 emacs-24.0.50.2*
-rwx------ 3 dann dann 8405343 Apr 18 15:53 emacs-24.0.50.3*

$ size -f emacs-24*
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
1847515 5426628       0 7274143  6efe9f emacs-24.0.50.1
1848083 5430148       0 7278231  6f0e97 emacs-24.0.50.2
1848275 6290116       0 8138391  7c2e97 emacs-24.0.50.3

The "data" segment size has increased between the .2 and .3 version by 800KB.

The change responsible seems to be this:

2010-04-18  Stefan Monnier  <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

            * loadup.el: Setup hash-cons for pure data.
This bug report was last modified 13 years and 316 days ago.

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