From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Time to drop the pre-dump phase in the build?
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 15:09:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140110200930.GA9970@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmwj38vq1.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:
> > 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.
Fair enough. I wasn't attached to it, but asking the question seemed
like a good thing.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-10 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-10 19:15 Time to drop the pre-dump phase in the build? Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-10 19:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-11 6:16 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-11 7:17 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-12 0:16 ` Nix
2014-01-12 3:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-12 3:53 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-11 7:17 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-10 19:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-10 20:09 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2014-01-10 20:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-10 20:20 ` Barry Warsaw
2014-01-10 20:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-10 21:06 ` Barry Warsaw
2014-01-10 22:19 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-10 22:58 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-11 0:05 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-10 23:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-11 0:07 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-11 2:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-11 3:37 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-11 5:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-11 5:30 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-11 16:14 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-11 20:13 ` Glenn Morris
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