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Kyle Jones writes:

> Steven L Baur writes:
>> Mark Borges writes:
>> 
>> > Purespace usage: 776672 of 886000 (88% -- 106k wasted).
>> > (due to c-* doc-string lossage I guess)
>> 
>> That's a bit much.  The value I'm aiming for is 35k +/- 5k.

> Is there any reason why we have ot have this guesswork?

It is how Emacs has worked for many years.

> Make dumping a two step process.  The first one figures out how much
> space is needed and sets puresize.h.  The second one actaully does
> the dump.

The purespace area is a static fixed size array.  Time the sequence of
loading the .elcs for dumping, plus the amount of time necessary to
recompile after touching puresize.h.  It's no biggy if you're on a
fast machine, but I want to give those on slower machines a chance to
protest first.
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