bug#46881: 28.0.50; pdumper dumping causes way too many syscalls

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> 30% slowdown and 1.5 sec absolute time difference doesn't sound bad
> enough to me to justify a homemade solution.  I say let's go with
> stdio.

Seems significant to me -- we're building Emacs a lot, and this bit
can't be parallelised.  And the savings in electricity alone should make
us go for the most efficient solution.

There doesn't seem to be any significant drawbacks to doing it the
efficient way, either.

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