Index: emacs23.2-openwrt-q/lisp/loadup.el
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--- emacs23.2-openwrt-q.orig/lisp/loadup.el	2010-12-18 20:22:56.000000000 +0100
+++ emacs23.2-openwrt-q/lisp/loadup.el	2010-12-18 20:23:14.000000000 +0100
@@ -47,6 +47,14 @@
 
 ;;; Code:
 
+;; This reduces memory usage by a few MB.  So far no negative consequences
+;; have been witnessed.
+(setq inhibit-load-charset-map t)
+
+;; Purify does in fact _safe_ memory (more efficient than normal' heap?)  so
+;; do not disable it for now.
+;(setq purify-flag nil)
+
 ;; Add subdirectories to the load-path for files that might get
 ;; autoloaded when bootstrapping.
 (if (or (equal (nth 3 command-line-args) "bootstrap")
@@ -80,9 +88,10 @@
 (load "emacs-lisp/backquote")
 (load "subr")
 
+;; not doing garbage collection this often decreases start-up time by 5s
 ;; Do it after subr, since both after-load-functions and add-hook are
 ;; implemented in subr.el.
-(add-hook 'after-load-functions '(lambda (f) (garbage-collect)))
+;(add-hook 'after-load-functions '(lambda (f) (garbage-collect)))
 
 ;; We specify .el in case someone compiled version.el by mistake.
 (load "version.el")