GNU bug report logs - #36597
27.0.50; rehash hash tables eagerly in pdumper

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From: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 36597-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36597: 27.0.50; rehash hash tables eagerly in pdumper
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 09:40:27 +0000

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 9:33 AM Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> On 8/10/20 6:04 AM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> > time make -j32 compile-always
> > ...
> > Er...  It's weird that there's so much difference in time between
> > runs
>
> I  think I get less variance if I do a sequential 'make' (i.e., without -j). Of
> course this takes longer.

It's worse than just execution time variance: at least in the past,
byte code used to differ between runs if -jN was used. I'm not sure
whether that's still true.

> It also simplifies the code a bit, so I took the liberty of installing it, after
> updating its commit message a bit and changing it to keep a comment that was
> updated recently (I figure this was a merge error).

It was, thank you!

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