Re: Time to drop the pre-dump phase in the build?

[Stefan Monnier]

> If anybody wants to own this problem, comparative benchmarking seems
> like a good place to start.  That is, hard numbers about the 
> actual performance effects of pre-dumping.  That'd head off a
> lot of arguments, anyway.

On my main desktop machine (AMD E350 with 6GB of RAM):

   time src/temacs --batch => 10s
   time src/emacs --batch => 0.07s

This is on a Samsung 840 SSD.
So, as long as the real startup (GUI and .emacs) takes less than 10s,
I think this idea is a non-starter.


        Stefan