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/run_main.js b/lib/internal/modules/run_main.js
index daaa153516c424334c18b5dfa35e0e55e1fbcce4..6181cc21bf303c41ed9c65681a34f6393223fb67 100644
--- a/lib/internal/modules/run_main.js
+++ b/lib/internal/modules/run_main.js
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 const {
   ObjectCreate,
   StringPrototypeEndsWith,
+  StringPrototypeStartsWith,
 } = primordials;
 const CJSLoader = require('internal/modules/cjs/loader');
 const { Module, toRealPath, readPackageScope } = CJSLoader;
@@ -13,6 +14,13 @@ const {
 } = require('internal/modules/esm/handle_process_exit');
 
 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;
+  }
+
   // Note extension resolution for the main entry point can be deprecated in a
   // future major.
   // Module._findPath is monkey-patchable here.
@@ -28,6 +36,13 @@ function resolveMainPath(main) {
 }
 
 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;
+  }
+
   /**
    * @type {string[]} userLoaders A list of custom loaders registered by the user
    * (or an empty list when none have been registered).