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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: --enable-final again
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () ens ! ascom ! ch>
Date:       1999-05-31 8:06:11
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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. 

Yes. That is my point exactly.

> 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.

So true.

Cheers,
Waldo
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