Subject: Re: bug#36447: 27.0.50; New "Unknown keyword" errors

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 09:45:10 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2019 18:10:56 -0400
> 
> > Indeed. I'm attaching a proof of concept that we can simply freeze the
> > hash tables when dumping and thaw them when loading a dump, which
> > includes rehashing. Do you happen to know why it wasn't done that way?
> 
> I'd guess it was to shorten the startup time by doing this rehashing lazily.

The function pdumper-stats with show the time it took to load Emacs,
so the effect of this on the load time can be measured.