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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: icon loading (app startup) speed
From:       Martin Konold <konold () suse ! de>
Date:       2001-08-09 8:18:10
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On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Waldo Bastian wrote:

> 1) Using some sort of icon server that allows us to share pixmaps between
> processes on the X-server.

Yet another server clutters KDE up and does cost substantial ressource
due to extra context and task switches. IPC is about 2-3 orders of
magnitude slower than direct access!

What about the kysycoca approach using a shared mmapped file?

Yours,
--martin

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