Help with theoretical crazyness, please!

[Brian Cluff]

Thats what I suspected, but I figured that I would shoot it out and see what
happened..... There HAS to be a way to get this SO to load faster.  The only
thing that I can think that is slowing it down between windows and linux is
that on linux they might be using some form of compression of all their
libraries and execuatables so that it has to load it up and decompress on
the fly.  If thats the case, if I could find a way to store them in
uncompressed form, that would also be very helpfull

Brian

----- Original Message -----
> I remember hearing about this in the past too.  As I recall, there was
> also a way to get emacs to dump itself in this fashion too which made
> it start up somewhat faster.
>
> I have no idea if this mechanism works on Linux or not, but even if it
> does, I seriously doubt it'll work for Star Office.  SO is a
> multi-threaded program and, unfortunately, on Linux right now it is
> not possible to obtain a truly useful core dump which respresents the
> complete state of a multi-threaded program.  Recent kernels will
> dump each thread to a separate core file, but, even if you have a
> way to restart a core file, this won't end up being useful since
> you must make sure that the address space is shared amongst the
> various threads that you restart.
>
> Even if the multi-threading problem weren't an issue, the other
> potential problem that I see with this approach is that while the core
> dump preserves the register and memory state of the process, it
> doesn't preserve the state of any file descriptors that the
> application might have open.  I have no idea if this would've been a
> problem for SO or not...
>
> Kevin
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