Re: Any advantages to recompile Emacs...

[Francis Moreau]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> Think of Unicode (8 bit -> 32 bit)! And if your hardware is 64 bit,
> then GNU Emacs could have been configured and compiled for this,
> using pointers that large. 

Does emacs embed many unicode strings ??

> Did you compile in debug information?

I haven't asked for when doing the './configure' thing so I wouldn't
expect to have such info...

[me checking]

Well, this 'configure' thing compiled emacs with the debug info
(damn!), so after striping emacs, the size looks more reasonable:
9.9M.

> 
> (And GTK also consumes lots of disk space, look at my GNU Emacs
> 21.3.50 (also GCC 3.3)!)

Well I have asked to compile emacs without X support, so I don't think
GTK is the culprit.

thanks
-- 
Francis