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Re:Under Deconstruction: The State of Shopify’s Monolith by im3w1l on Thursday September 17, 2020 @03:30PM (#24508910)
I heard emacs did that but went one step further, they dump the memory of the interpreter post-init* and just load it into memory when starting.

* Some early step in the init process. Many things are still interpreted at init.

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Re:Under Deconstruction: The State of Shopify’s Monolith by andreareina on Thursday September 17, 2020 @10:02PM (#24512209)
"emacs unexec" is the search term if you're looking for it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21394916

https://lwn.net/Articles/707615/ "The Emacs dumper dispute"

https://lwn.net/Articles/673724/ "Removing support for Emacs unexec from Glibc"

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