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From: Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>
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Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch> writes:

> Then I think you are optimzing for the uncommon case. For a non-beta
> user the packages have much more frequent updates.

The problem with this is that, to redump you need to keep temacs
around. This will cost you (gzipped) about 1 MB...
Secondly it might gives you problems with PURESIZE (does this NEED to
be a compiletime constant?.

Jan

