Re: Skipping unexec via a big .elc file

[Ken Raeburn]

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>> * Changed gc-cons-threshold to be much larger.
> 
> How about binding it to a higher value for loadup?

That may be good enough.  But GC will probably kick in right after we set it 
back, so probably most methods we might try for measuring startup time will 
incur the cost of at least one GC pass, and it’ll happen when the user starts 
Emacs in real life.  I guess one question is, how much it matters?  It’s only a 
fraction of a second, but I’m trying to shave a startup time of 0.2s (or 0.6s 
on Mac OS X) down closer to 0.1s, so a fraction of a second can make a 
difference.