Re: [PATCH] conhost: Delay-load gdi32 and user32.

[Jacek Caban]

Hi Zebediah,

On 13.02.2021 00:23, Zebediah Figura wrote:
> Both do some nontrivial work on DLL initialization, and conhost may quite
> likely never need to display UI.

See bug 38640. We probably want to create a message window for Unix 
consoles.
> Signed-off-by: Zebediah Figura
>
> Actually gdi32 initialization is quite cheap now, at least on my machine,
> though user32 still takes over 100 ms. In truth the annoyance for me was not
> so much startup time as pollution of +server logs.

Note that when you create a new console, client does not wait for that 
initialization, so it doesn't block client application (unless it does 
any ioctl that needs conhost).

Thanks,

Jacek