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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re:  Why is KDE so _slow_?
From:       "Roberto H. Alsina" <ralsina () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-11-16 13:59:53
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On Fri, Nov 15 2002 at 10:59:06pm -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Roberto H. Alsina wrote:
> >On Thu, Nov 14 2002 at 03:30:44pm -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> >
> >>Grant Bartlett wrote:
> >>
> >>>I love KDE more than the next guy, but lately the speed of things has 
> >>>really been starting to get on my nerves.
> >>>
> >>>First up I have a 1.2Ghz Duron box, with 512MB of RAM, Running RedHat 
> >>>8.0 - Basically something that is more than sufficient for desktop use.
> >>>
> >>
> >>First, the faster processor doesn't make much difference over say a 400 
> >>Mhz one.  More memory might help, but doesn't' seem to.
> >>
> >>
> >>>However, How can Konqueror take over 2.3 seconds to show up? 
> >>
> >>HOW??  Well just open a Konsole and execute: "konqueror"
> >
> >
> >That is the SLOW way to start konqueror. Use kdeinit_wrapper.
> >
> Do you have some statistics?

If you don't have prelinking/combreloc/whatever, it is supposed to save a
chunk of the prelinking time.

I can't give you numbers because I have ELF prelinking.

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