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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>

Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 19:46:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
Cc: John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com>, 24628 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24628: GNUtls initialization adds 500ms to startup --- do we really need it just for the RNG?
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2016 00:04:56 +0200

Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org> 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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