Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file

[Andreas Schwab]

On Okt 24 2016, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

>> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 08:47:39 +0200
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> >> If I re-add international/characters it goes up a bit to
>> >> 0.96s, but still nowhere near the 3s I got on my big .elc file.
>> >> [ I wonder what makes loading my big file so slow.  ]
>> >> 
>> >> This said, there's still a factor 5-10 to get to "immediate", tho.
>> >
>> > A small price to pay for the advantages, IMO.
>> 
>> I think a one second startup time for "emacs -Q -nw" on a fast machine
>> sounds pretty horrific, myself.
>
> We are not talking about 1 sec, we are talking about less than half
> that time, potentially even 1/4th of a second.

That's still a lot.

$ time emacs --batch --eval t
0.027user 0.011system 0m0.048selapsed 79.66%CPU

Andreas.

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