Re: kdeinit optimization

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On Mon July 5 2004 17:37, Karl Vogel wrote:
> Some random thoughts...
>
>
> 1) Pre fork
>
> If I'm not mistaken, kdeinit will currently fork() and then dlopen
> the app when a user launches an app.
>
> I'm wondering if there would be any benefit in pre-forking kdeinit
> and then having it wait on a pipe to get the app name which is then
> dlopen'ed. That way the VMA/fork setup of the process is done before
> the actual startup of a process.

I don't think VMA/fork is the bottleneck, is it?

> 2) Re-exec
>
> Another thing I'm wondering about... should kdeinit have a way to
> re-exec?! Since a few systems are now using prelink, long running
> KDE apps will have their sharedlibs deleted by prelink, ie. my
> kdeinit shows:

I think that's typical for a workstation used for KDE development, but does 
that happen in other situations as well?

Cheers,
Waldo
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