Re: Startup time of the latest dev versions.

On Sat, 3 Sep 2016 23:43:15 -0700
Ben Woolley <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> > On Sep 3, 2016, at 11:10 PM, John Found <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 3 Sep 2016 21:30:07 +0100
> > Nick Warne <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi John,
> >> 
> >> On Sat, 3 Sep 2016 21:12:46 +0300
> >> John Found <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> I am using Dillo as a help viewer of my IDE, because it has really
> >>> short startup times and pressing F1 I get instant access to the
> >>> documentation. 
> >>> 
> >>> Recently I tried to compile and use the recent development versions
> >>> from the hg repository, because of the recent changes in the
> >>> rendering and the general improvements in the browser. 
> >>> 
> >>> But unfortunately, the startup time seems to be increased and now I
> >>> have to wait 2..3 seconds for browser to start and to show my help
> >>> files.
> >> 
> >> Is that not fast?  You blink and miss it.
> > 
> > Well, no, I don't blink for 2..3 seconds. More like 300ms; :)
> > The official Dillo 3.0.5 always starts instantly.
> > 
> > I made some more tests and found that the "big wait" is actually the first time
> > you start Dillo - there is an intensive hard disk activity (swap?) without any messages in the console.
> > 
> > The next times, Dillo starts faster, but still noticeable slower than v 3.0.5
> > 
> > v3.0.5 always starts instantly, at least I can't see any delay or difference between the first start and the next.
> > 
> 
> Can you go into more detail on what constitutes "first" here? Maybe disk cache explains most of that. Are the two binaries on the same disk? Maybe one on an SSD system disk, and another in some home folder on a spinning disk? There could be lots of different things at play here. Are you rebuilding 3.0.5 in the same way, in the same parent folder?

"First" means first after restart of the computer. I am not sure if later, after some other programs started the startup time is not again slow. You know, such things are pretty hard to track. But even after the "first" startup, the subjective impression is that the dev versions starts much slower than 3.0.5; But once started, they render (and generally browse) faster than 3.0.5.

There is only one hard disk (not SSD) on the computer. The different Dillo versions are on the same hard disk. The v3.0.5 has been installed from the applications repository (Manjaro/Arc Linux).

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