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Awesome, indeed.

Other classics: dumping the memory of an active process (check my GitHub utils repo, I have it there) and redirecting the standard output AFTER you've started a process.




Ah, dumping memory. I once took the dump-and-restart code from GNU Emacs, and planted it into GNU Make. I was then able to read a large and complex Makefile (consisting of included sub-Makefiles throughout a large tree) which took 30 seconds to process, dump the image to disk (with make --dump), and then use the dump to run incremental builds which were able to kick off build recipes almost instantly!


Amazing - you must blog about it!

I only wish that in a site called 'Hacker News', it would be technical comments like yours at the top of this discussion. Oh well...


Talk about some dark magic (to me at least). Well, not that dark, turns out people wrote about it here http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DumpingEmacs




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