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3.5.2 Memory dumps
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In typical use, TeX and Metafont require a large number of macros to be
predefined; therefore, they support "memory dump" files, which can be
read much more efficiently than ordinary source code.

Creating memory dumps

Determining the memory dump to use

Hardware and memory dumps