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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master a37eba8: Speed up initialization by preferring /dev/urandom to GnuTLS
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 17:39:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ins8plx4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <r025bmy2pbx2.fsf@dancol.org> (message from Daniel Colascione on Sat, 29 Oct 2016 23:51:21 -0700)

> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 23:51:21 -0700
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 
> > dancol@dancol.org (Daniel Colascione) writes:
> >
> >> +  /* If that didn't work, try using GnuTLS, which is secure, but on
> >> +     some systems, can be somewhat slow.  */
> >
> > Did anybody make an attempt at determining why this is slow on the
> > reported system?  If calling that function is slow on that system, then
> > presumably that means that opening a TLS connection will now be
> > inexplicably slow the first time, right?
> 
> The system isn't managed by me and has some custom security certificate
> crud that I didn't feel like digging into. You're right about TLS
> connection delays, but I'm more willing to tolerate the delay in
> connecting over a network (which is slow anyway) than I am in
> process startup.

I think the decision was to install this on emacs-25, so please
cherry-pick from master.

Thanks.



      reply	other threads:[~2016-10-31 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20161030030058.8530.81219@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
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2016-10-30  6:45   ` master a37eba8: Speed up initialization by preferring /dev/urandom to GnuTLS Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-10-30  6:51     ` Daniel Colascione
2016-10-31 15:39       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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