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From: Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com>
To: 46881@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46881: 28.0.50; pdumper dumping causes way too many syscalls
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2021 20:33:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOqdjBehCkGy+Xr4fbkVQMdMmJsEvCGqn3Kmuy00zdBbG1h2Vw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Playing around with the WebAssembly port, I noticed that pdumper, in
creating the dump file, makes way too many syscalls: it uses
emacs_write(), not fwrite(), so these calls translate to actual
syscalls and context switches. On immature systems (or in special
circumstances like a device mounted synchronously), they might
actually cause a hardware write for each syscall, which would wear out
flash quickly and be generally wasteful.

I've looked into the problem, and it seems easy to solve and worth it
in terms of debuggability and performance.

Patch will be attached once this has a bug number.





             reply	other threads:[~2021-03-02 20:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-02 20:33 Pip Cet [this message]
2021-03-02 20:45 ` bug#46881: 28.0.50; pdumper dumping causes way too many syscalls Pip Cet
2021-03-02 21:07   ` Alan Third
2021-03-03  7:10     ` Pip Cet
2021-03-03 19:57       ` Alan Third
2021-03-04  7:25         ` Pip Cet
2021-03-03  5:51   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-03  7:35     ` Pip Cet
2021-03-03 15:09       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-03-03 19:35       ` Paul Eggert
2021-03-04 22:26     ` Daniel Colascione
2021-03-05  2:30       ` Pip Cet
2021-03-05  7:19         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-05  7:38           ` Pip Cet
2021-03-05  7:54             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-05  9:54               ` Pip Cet
2021-03-05 10:23                 ` Andrea Corallo via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-03-05 12:06                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-05 12:49                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-03-05 13:23                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-05 13:16                   ` Pip Cet
2021-03-05 14:02                     ` Pip Cet
2021-03-05 14:13                       ` Daniel Colascione
2021-03-05 14:55                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-05 15:12                         ` Pip Cet
2021-03-05  9:35             ` Andreas Schwab
2021-03-05  9:41               ` Pip Cet
2021-06-15  9:25 ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-06-15 12:58   ` Daniel Colascione
2021-06-15 13:06     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-15 13:17       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-15 13:25         ` Daniel Colascione
2021-06-15 13:30           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-15 15:32         ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-06-15 22:44           ` Daniel Colascione
2021-06-16  8:00             ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-06-16  8:14               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-16  8:16               ` Pip Cet
2021-06-16 14:13 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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