On Tue, Jul 15 2025, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>>> In loadup.el there is this:
>>> 
>>>   (add-hook 'after-load-functions (lambda (_) (garbage-collect)))
>>> 
>>> What's this for?  It seems unnecessary.
>>> 
>>> It would be nice to remove this, because without it the time to execute
>>> loadup.el goes down from 13 seconds to 6.
>>
>> I presume this is because we don't want to dump any garbage.
>> Stefan?
>
> AFAIK it was added to keep the dumped Emacs' heap "dense": if we run the
> GC only "in the normal way", the heap objects created during `loadup.el`
> end up interspersed with more free spaces.
>
> It's possible/likely that the portable dumper has made that unnecessary.

Should I commit this?