Re: size of emacs executable after unicode merge

[Stefan Monnier]

> After taking over Chong's experiment, I could reduce the
> size of Emacs executables about 7M bytes.  About 4M bytes
> were actually because of charset mapping tables, and it
> could be reduced by setting up C structure temp_charset_work
> (see charset.c for the detail) instead of making many Lisp
> objects (char-table and vector).  Another 3M bytes were
> because of big standard category table.  It could be reduced
> by hashing the table entries (see hash_get_category_set in
> category.c for the detail).

> As a result, now the executable is 10,671,313 bytes on
> GNU/Linux.  It's still 1.6M bytes larger than Emacs 22, but
> I'm not sure it's worth making more effort to reduce it.

That's great to hear.  1.6MB of growth is not a feature, but I guess we
can live with it for now.


        Stefan