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bug#24628: GNUtls initialization adds 500ms to startup --- do we really
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John Wiegley |
Subject: |
bug#24628: GNUtls initialization adds 500ms to startup --- do we really need it just for the RNG? |
Date: |
Fri, 07 Oct 2016 00:49:37 -0700 |
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>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> However, my objections were evidently not enough to revert back, although
> you agreed with me:
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=22202#118
Thanks for the references. Let's revert this change for 25.2 until the stated
problem (entropy exhaustion) becomes a real problem, i.e. reported by a user.
There is no reason to make everyone pay a 1/2 second startup cost for a
theoretical problem, or a code simplification whose benefits are so minor.
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bug#24628: GNUtls initialization adds 500ms to startup --- do we really need it just for the RNG?, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/10/07