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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Performance
From:       Alex Zepeda <jazepeda () pacbell ! net>
Date:       2000-08-05 0:37:58
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On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Uwe Thiem wrote:

> (C)
> DEC Alpha 500  256 MB ram
> --enable-debug
> 
> (C) is a completely different beast. Konqueror was dog slow. After
> rendering a the text of apage generated by analog (lots of little pix)
> it took several minutes until all the little pix appeared. During this
> period, Konqueror was almost unusable. Even the vertical scrollbar didn't
> react. BTW: There was no network activity during this period, so I guess
> it's the rendering.

This is probably because gcc/GNU binutils suck almost as badly on the
Alphas as they do on the PPC.

- alex

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