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