bug#23529: Request for fixing randomize_va_space build issues

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 20:24:19 +0200
> Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, p.stephani2@gmail.com, 
> 23529@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> You got me curious, can you explain a bit why it is useful? I always
> thought the reason was about speed, something historical that was
> needed "back then".

If you are loading a lot of code in your init files, you could simply
dump Emacs with all that code loaded.

> AFAIK, nowadays most people that care about speed use autoloads or
> use-package and get under 2-3s of load-time.

Loading a large package can still be slow enough to annoy.  Try
loading Org, for example; then imagine you have several such large
packages to load at startup.