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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC: Decouple kdeinit from kcontrol modules
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-01-04 20:18:37
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On Friday 04 January 2002 11:50 am, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:15:08PM -0800, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > On Thursday 27 December 2001 09:07 am, Daniel Molkentin wrote:
> > > My question (hello Waldo, Lubos ;) is wether it would bring an
> > > effective speedup. What was the original idea behing coupling
> > > KControl and Startup stuff anyway?
> >
> > They are functionally coupled. It typically performs some
> > initialisation based on a setting that you can set with the control
> > module. Think modular design.
>
> that wouldn't prevent us from splitting the modules with an init part
> into a (big) setup lib and a (small) init lib. the question is, how
> much it would gain us. 

Measure, change it, and measure again. It should improve paging behaviour 
which should be especialy noticable on low-mem machines. 

How many init routines do we have at the moment?

Cheers,
Waldo
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