Re: My Top Picks: Long Rant

On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Dexter Filmore wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:55:34 +0200
> "Daniel C. von Asmuth" <asmuth-8LkvcxCLB6JmR6Xm/[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Thus quoth Zed Shaw on Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 01:46:08AM -0700:
> > > 
> > > 4.  Could KDE take any longer to start up?  It seems to me that the 
> > > advantage of a multi-tasking, threaded, forking capable operating 
> > > system is that I can have stuff happen in the background.  You know, no 
> > 
> > Unix is a multi-user OS. How fast does your computer have to be so that
> > 100 different users can run KDE simultaneously without falling asleep?
> 
> How fast can one expect it to be if there's only ONE user logged in? clearly
> faster than KDE.
> We're talking workstation/office 'puter here, not frigging AT&T mail server.
> 
> @Zed: compiling X and KDE from src with CPU optimization takes bloody ages but
> results in a clear speed-up.

I expect that a more productive way of improving KDE startup times is
to prelink all the KDE binaries. Most of the startup time is related to
linking all the C++ libraries KDE uses, from what I hear.

Red Hat 8+ introduced experimental support for prelinking - install the
prelink-0.2.0-8 and read prelink(8).

Note, however, that I don't use KDE, so I can't vouch for using prelink any
more than I have.

> Dex

Best Regards,
Alex.
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