[armedbear-devel] Fwd: [j-devel] Improving startup time: sanity check

[Alessio Stalla]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Tobias C. Rittweiler <tcr at freebits.de> wrote:
> Erik Huelsmann writes:
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>> From: Alessio Stalla <alessiostalla at gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:20 PM
>> Subject: Re: [j-devel] Improving startup time: sanity check
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>> > This brought me to the conclusion that our startup process could be
>> > much faster, if we decided to delay function object creation until the
>> > function is actually used: we would eliminate the need to construct
>> > function objects until they're used instead of creating them when
>> > their siblings are requested to be loaded.
>
> I haven't followed the actual issue, but the autoloading stuff makes
> abcl-svn feel pretty unresponsive at times, for example when it has to
> load in the actual pretty-printer code when trying to print a backtrace.
>
> If you want to add more laziness please make it optional.

We could add a function, say system:resolve-all-autoloads, that you
can call in your init file. Then abcl's startup  will be pretty long,
but later it won't be unresponsive.