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Re: Guile Startup Time Suggestion

>>>>> "John" == John Tobey <jtobey@channel1.com> writes:

    >> On several platforms, unexec and dynamic loading cannot live
    >> together.

    John> Why not?  If you mean that pointers need to be relocated and
    John> there's no telling what's a pointer and what isn't, I
    John> suggest we try harder.

    John> I'm glad you made the claim it can't be done, 'cause now I'm
    John> gonna try and prove that it __can__.

 Why can `XEmacs' and `emacs' do it then?  They are dynamicly
 linked... to a pile of shared object libraries.

 The newest XEmacs are also compiled with the malloc from GNU Libc,
 (dlmalloc), rather than the gmalloc that's in the guile-unexec
 tarfile.  I gather that this was a feat worth accomplishing, that the
 `dlmalloc' is superiour.  I don't have the skills to find out or
 understand how it works yet, though I'm gaining on it turtlishly.


ldd =xemacs
	libXaw.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/neXtaw/libXaw.so.6 (0x40012000)
	libcompface.so.1 => /usr/lib/libcompface.so.1 (0x40068000)
	libtiff.so.3 => /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3 (0x40073000)
	libpng.so.2 => /usr/lib/libpng.so.2 (0x400ab000)
	libjpeg.so.6a => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.6a (0x400d6000)
	libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x400f4000)
	libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x40103000)
	libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x40111000)
	libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x40123000)
	libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x4016b000)
	libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40177000)
	libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x4021b000)
	libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x40224000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4023a000)
	libdb.so.2 => /lib/libdb.so.2 (0x4023d000)
	libgdbm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.1 (0x4024b000)
	libgpm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 (0x40251000)
	libncurses.so.3.4 => /lib/libncurses.so.3.4 (0x40257000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4029c000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x402b5000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)