GNU bug report logs - #41242
Port feature/native-comp to Windows

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Message #302 received at 41242 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Nicolas Bértolo <nicolasbertolo <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 41242 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Andrea Corallo <akrl <at> sdf.org>
Subject: Re: bug#41242: Port feature/native-comp to Windows
Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 15:29:25 -0300

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 > If it takes us 32 seconds to run openp, then how many files do we try
> to probe?  32 sec is eternity!

`load-path' has 380 entries, and load-prefer-newer is true. That is why it
is so slow.
Loading foo.el from package foo requires probing 6 different extensions
(.eln, .dll, .elc.gz, .elc, .el, .el.gz) in 380 directories.
6*380 = 2280 calls to wopen() per call to `load` or `require`

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