Subject: bug#24628: GNUtls initialization adds 500ms to startup --- do we really need it just for the RNG?

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2016 00:04:56 +0200

Richard Stallman <[email-masked]> writes:

> Is it possible to do the gnutls initialization in parallel with
> ordinary Emacs execution?  Probably it would become unnoticeable that
> way.

The gnutls initialisation should take virtually zero time, and it does
so on most systems.  We have a report of that initialisation taking time
on a single system, and we need to find out why.

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