On Jul 21, 2017, at 01:25 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >That is what Emacs does, and it causes them a lot of trouble. They're >trying to move away from it at the moment, but the direction is not yet >clear. The keyword is "unexec", and it wrecks havoc with malloc.
Emacs has been unexec'ing for as long as I can remember (which is longer than I can remember Python :). I know that it's been problematic and there have been many efforts over the years to replace it, but I think it's been a fairly successful technique in practice, at least on platforms that support it. That's another problem with the approach of course; it's not universally possible to implement. -Barry _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
