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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Performance
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-08-05 21:43:28
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Uwe Thiem wrote:
> 
> After all the fuzz about speed and performance of KDE in general and
> Konqueror in particular I conducted a couple of tests today. Fresh
> update from this morning.
> 
> I compiles the packages up to kdebase on three machines:
> 
> (A)
> Pentium II 400  256 MB ram
> --enable-debug for everything (Qt to kdebase)
> 
> (B)
> Celeron 400  192 MB ram
> no debug but no fancy optimisation settings either, just what you
> get if you don't specify --enable-debug
> 
> (C)
> DEC Alpha 500  256 MB ram
> --enable-debug
> 
> Usually (A) and (B) are equally fast, (A) just a wee bit faster.
> 
> I was rather surprised that (A) and (B) were almost equally fast in
> this case. Startup of applications were somewhat slower on (A) which
> is due to the much bigger sizes of executables and libraries with debug.
> Konqueror, on the other hand, rendered pages sometimes a bit faster
> on (A), sometimes on (B). The difference was not significant.
> 
> After this result, I find the hunt for the "right" optimisation
> settings superfluous.
> 
We talk about --disable-debug - which adds a lot more. For example it
turns off debug output and the code used for it

Greetings, Stephan

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