From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Samuel Attard <marshallofsound@electronjs.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:03:15 -0700
Subject: fix: do not resolve electron entrypoints

This wastes fs cycles and can result in strange behavior if this path actually exists on disk

diff --git a/lib/internal/modules/esm/translators.js b/lib/internal/modules/esm/translators.js
index bbd3085cfbf14aefd611954fa836f6c96d7e402c..9e71d2d0b79656e212fb21efdb3efcf988529f5e 100644
--- a/lib/internal/modules/esm/translators.js
+++ b/lib/internal/modules/esm/translators.js
@@ -291,6 +291,9 @@ function cjsPreparseModuleExports(filename, source, isMain, format) {
   if (module && module[kModuleExportNames] !== undefined) {
     return { module, exportNames: module[kModuleExportNames] };
   }
+  if (filename === 'electron') {
+    return { module, exportNames: new SafeSet(['default', ...Object.keys(module.exports)]) };
+  }
   const loaded = Boolean(module);
   if (!loaded) {
     module = new CJSModule(filename);
diff --git a/lib/internal/modules/run_main.js b/lib/internal/modules/run_main.js
index 02ba43adc2c8e92a78942bbb04023a16f5870ee9..bbf1ab69b884a9325bebdd07b2c4fd354eee946b 100644
--- a/lib/internal/modules/run_main.js
+++ b/lib/internal/modules/run_main.js
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 const {
   StringPrototypeEndsWith,
+  StringPrototypeStartsWith,
   globalThis,
 } = primordials;
 
@@ -26,6 +27,13 @@ const {
  * @param {string} main - Entry point path
  */
 function resolveMainPath(main) {
+  // For built-in modules used as the main entry point we _never_
+  // want to waste cycles resolving them to file paths on disk
+  // that actually might exist
+  if (typeof main === 'string' && StringPrototypeStartsWith(main, 'electron/js2c')) {
+    return main;
+  }
+
   const defaultType = getOptionValue('--experimental-default-type');
   /** @type {string} */
   let mainPath;
@@ -62,6 +70,13 @@ function resolveMainPath(main) {
  * @param {string} mainPath - Absolute path to the main entry point
  */
 function shouldUseESMLoader(mainPath) {
+  // For built-in modules used as the main entry point we _never_
+  // want to waste cycles resolving them to file paths on disk
+  // that actually might exist
+  if (typeof mainPath === 'string' && StringPrototypeStartsWith(mainPath, 'electron/js2c')) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
   if (getOptionValue('--experimental-default-type') === 'module') { return true; }
 
   /**