Got some info on IRC -- apparently there is now a "code stub assembler" that does a bunch of work on startup.
I stopped the program a few times during startup and it was confirmed, looking at the stack traces, that that was in fact what was going on. Moral of this story: use snapshots. On Monday, April 3, 2017 at 12:48:52 AM UTC-7, Zac Hansen wrote: > > I just updated my v8 build and noticed a dramatic slowdown in startup > times. > > I'd always used no snapshots for convenience because the startup penalty > was insignificant (maybe around 3s?) but ever since I updated it's up > around 20s now. > > Is this a known behavior or am I doing something else wrong maybe? > > Thank you. > > -- -- v8-users mailing list v8-users@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to v8-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.