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 4c3a0d8c484a402fe419a0bd45c7e2b1d717cb4a..b8be4cde3bbe4b14e607a2bef0a2405df3cae533 100644
--- a/lib/internal/modules/esm/translators.js
+++ b/lib/internal/modules/esm/translators.js
@@ -309,6 +309,8 @@ function cjsPreparseModuleExports(filename, source) {
     const cached = cjsParseCache.get(module);
     if (cached)
       return { module, exportNames: cached.exportNames };
+    if (filename === 'electron')
+      return { module };
   }
   const loaded = Boolean(module);
   if (!loaded) {
diff --git a/lib/internal/modules/run_main.js b/lib/internal/modules/run_main.js
index 0bfe7b11241416bfca0d470047b14777ad99307f..c86add4395ed59cee0d880961e7572b0cc3d6698 100644
--- a/lib/internal/modules/run_main.js
+++ b/lib/internal/modules/run_main.js
@@ -2,12 +2,19 @@
 
 const {
   StringPrototypeEndsWith,
+  StringPrototypeStartsWith,
 } = primordials;
 
 const { getOptionValue } = require('internal/options');
 const path = require('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;
+  }
   // Note extension resolution for the main entry point can be deprecated in a
   // future major.
   // Module._findPath is monkey-patchable here.
@@ -24,6 +31,12 @@ 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).
