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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Disk usage optimizations
From:       John Tapsell <john () geola ! co ! uk>
Date:       2005-02-24 10:29:28
Message-ID: 200502241029.28490.john () geola ! co ! uk
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On Wednesday 23 February 2005 21:28, Manuel Amador wrote:
> Do not use valgrind.  Use strace, and count the stat/open calls.  The
> amount of them (in the thousands) do add up significantly for startup
> performance (fortunately all of us use unixes so the OS already provides
> an extremely optimized interface, using Other OSes to do so many opens,
> forks and stats would take literally a hundred times more time!)

A)  I disagree.  Just because there's thousands of stats you still need to do 
profile checking to be sure that is the problem.

B) Suddenly I'm more afraid of this port to windows because of things like we 
can't assume forks/open/stat are fast
 
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