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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: --enable-final again
From:       Mario Weilguni <mweilguni () sime ! com>
Date:       1999-05-28 17:50:47
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Am Fri, 28 May 1999 schrieb Waldo Bastian:
>Mario Weilguni wrote:
>> And why does everbody emphasize speed? Speed is mostly a null-issue for
>> GUI-stuff, and most of the speed of kde-programs is limited by disk access and
>> of course the user - you can't type faster because code is optimized for a P-II.
>
>The most important speed factor, IMHO, is the speed in which an 
>application can be launched. (For desktop applications that is.)

Yes, but then size optimizations are really an issue. Suppose a 350kb program,
optimized 200 kb. Loading 150 kb from disk takes around 50msec (min), and a
Pentium 200 has 10 millions clock cycles in this time. It must be a hell of a
good optimizer that saves you that much clock cycles. Let's face it: if some of
our applications are slow at startup (e.g. kmail since 1.1.1), it's because of
poor design, and it will bring much more to improve design than to bet on the
optimizer of the compiler.

Ciao,
	Mario

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