> From: Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de> > Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 11:20:58 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >> Could be: depends on the precise semantics of spawn, which I don't know. > > > > I'm barely following this thread, so please tell what semantics do you > > need, and I will then try figuring out whether spawn does what you > > need. > > The idea IIUC is to fork/spawn Emacs after it has initialized to be able > to use a "pristine" instance to spawn off again for byte compilation. > > emacs-pristine +--- emacs-user > | > +--- emacs-bytecompile-1 > | > +--- emacs-bytecompile-2 > | > +--- emacs-bytecompile-3
How is this different from invoking emacs-bytecompile-N instances in parallel to invoking emacs-pristine? IOW, do you expect the byte-compile instances to be different in any way from a fresh Emacs session invoked from the shell as "emacs -Q"?
