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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: App start is too slow (looooong)
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-04-26 18:36:50
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Geert Jansen wrote:
> 
> Dirk Mueller wrote:
> 
> >  0.5s    loading lots of toolbar and application-specific icons.
> >          some of them are loaded twice.
> 
> Are you sure you interpreted your data correctly? I get quite different
> figures for the iconloader.
> 
> I wrote a small test program (attached to this mail) and measured execution
> time with gettimeofday() over enough iterations, and I got the following
> results
> 
> Constructing the iconloader: dt = 50 ms
> Loading an unknown icon: dt = 7 ms
> Loading an existing icon (up front in path): dt = 3.5 ms
> 
> Konsole seems to load 11 icons on startup, so the total overhead due to
> icon loading should be something like 100 ms.
> 
Well, factors are factors :) And Dirk used strace to get these numbers,
which naturaly slows down things.

why does it need 50ms? What does it do then? Wow

Greetings, Stephan

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