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Iwan-Zotow on Feb 16, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Worst Experience I've Had with an Aarch64 MacB...

> for faster boot times, Emacs binaries burn in some kind of low-level memory-image that gets dumped into an mmap region and then "revivified."

unexec hack

No true anymore for Emacs 27.x, they go with more portables (though a bit slower) preload

derefr on Feb 16, 2021 [–]

Thank you! I was so confused because I didn't remember the name, and there was no documentation about it I could find without the name (probably because it's out-of-date info now.)

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