From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: nicolasbertolo@gmail.com, 41646@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41646: Startup in Windows is very slow when load-path contains many entries.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 22:07:15 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837du1kpwc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1s92ld9.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Fri, 14 Aug 2020 19:22:26 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 41646@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 19:22:26 +0200
>
> > That was a very good idea. The attached patch reduces time spent
> > in openp() during startup by 5 seconds, or 15%.
>
> That's a huge speed-up indeed.
>
> [...]
>
> > - fd = emacs_open (pfn, O_RDONLY, 0);
> > + /* In some systems (like Windows) finding out if a
> > + file exists is cheaper to do than actually opening
> > + it. Only open the file when we are sure that it
> > + exists. */
> > +#ifdef WINDOWSNT
> > + if (faccessat (AT_FDCWD, pfn, R_OK, AT_EACCESS))
> > + fd = -1;
> > + else
> > +#endif
> > + fd = emacs_open (pfn, O_RDONLY, 0);
> > +
>
> This is a Windows-specific patch, so I have no opinion on it. Eli?
> Does this make sense to you?
Not sure. 15% sounds too little for having OS-specific code in that
place. I hoped it will be much more.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-14 19:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-01 14:26 bug#41646: Startup in Windows is very slow when load-path contains many entries Nicolas Bértolo
2020-06-01 16:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-01 16:46 ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-06-01 17:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-01 19:51 ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-06-02 2:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-03 1:07 ` Nicolas Bértolo
2020-08-14 17:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-14 19:07 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-05-13 9:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-13 10:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-13 11:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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