Re: Startup time of the latest dev versions.

John Found <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.dillo.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 14:51:32 +0100
Jeremy Henty <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> John Found wrote:
> 
> > "First" means first after restart of  the computer. I am not sure if
> > later, after  some other  programs started the  startup time  is not
> > again slow. You know, such things are pretty hard to track. But even
> > after the "first" startup, the subjective impression is that the dev
> > versions  starts much  slower  than 3.0.5;  But  once started,  they
> > render (and generally browse) faster than 3.0.5.
> 
> This is  a *wild*  guess, but  the dev versions  have a  different ssl
> library  now.   Perhaps it  is  trying  to  collect entropy  when  the
> programs starts?   You would  expect that  to take  longer immediately
> after a reboot.
> 
> Crypto libraries  have been  known to do  surprising things  to gath
> entropy, such as reading /etc/passwd !
> 

This guess sounds very plausible. At least it is something that has been changed in Dillo.

Can we stop the library from such actions or to postpone it until it is really needed? 
It is not said, it will be needed instantly after the start. 

> Regards
> 
> Jeremy Henty
> 
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