Re: Dynamic symbol table

Luciano Montanaro <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.devel.optimize
Message-ID <[email protected]>
El 12:05, venerdì 16 luglio 2004, Karl Vogel escribió:
> Luciano Montanaro <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]: 
> 
> > El 23:09, giovedì 15 luglio 2004, Karl Vogel escribió:
> >> KDE Startup time however isn't reduced.. still 18 seconds for a cold
> >> boot.. while only 5 seconds for a warm start :-(
> > 
> > What about kcontrol startup time and browsing?
> 
> Didn't test that.. but I'd guess it would make a tiny difference (esp on 
> slow machines). My machine is an AMD64 3Ghz laptop, so parsing 200+ symbols 
> is peanuts for the linker. (hd speed on the other hand is a bigger issue)
> 

On slow machines, every bit helps. Even more, on small-memory machines.
Maybe passing mem=128M (or even mem=64M) at boot time could be instructive.

Luciano
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