Re: Time to drop the pre-dump phase in the build?

[Eric S. Raymond]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>:
> > 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.
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