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Memory dumps
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  In typical use, TeX, Metafont, and MetaPost 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