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Re: New tool to reduce emacs start-up time on Linux


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: New tool to reduce emacs start-up time on Linux
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 22:36:53 -0400

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  > I'd never run emacs as root either. CRIU has to run as root, but the
  > processes it creates when restoring a snapshot are regular non-root
  > processes, just like the one that was checkpointed.

Based on this, Emacs could perhaps, in principle, use CRIU _when_ it
is installed in the system.  But CRIU can't replace the existing
undumping facility, since users must be able to build and dump Emacs
in their own directories too.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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