GNU bug report logs - #24720
Performance impact of -no-pie

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 20:20:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Emacs bug reports <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Alex <agrambot <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Performance impact of -no-pie
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 13:18:51 -0700

(The rest of this message is copied from Alex's email archived at 
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-10/msg00451.html>.)

After being forced to add -no-pie to my CFLAGS in order to build Emacs with a recent GCC, my startup time for my whole config (with -nw) has increased from ~1 second to ~2 seconds.

The startup time for `emacs -Q -nw` went up from about 0.07s to 0.14s; again it's about twice as slow.

The -Q time doesn't worry me, but the extra second for my main configuration isn't pleasant.

Is such a performance impact expected? If so, is there a plan to regain the old speed?
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