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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: A Few Questions
From:       Ashish Trivedi <ashish () iitg ! ernet ! in>
Date:       2000-08-07 4:54:37
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Hi
I think That It would be better to make up a list of apps and their
commmon libs first and laod the common libs at the init.
ashish


On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Frank Baumgart wrote:

> > I would be interested to discover where the speed loss is incurred. Is it with
> > the Kernel, Filesystem, System Software, KDE or Application?
> 
> The last three.
> 
> (Simplified:) Every KDE app, even a simple one, links against a dozen
> and often more libraries. Sum up the sizes of the libraries, the number
> of symbols to resolve in them and suddenly you know why the loader has
> quite sth. to do until the app finally comes up.
> (Remember the ld.so patch for Star Office some years ago)
> Currently, there is a workaround for this problem named kdeinit,
> which kind of caches libraries and eventually reduces symbol name
> resolving but it is no cure for the real problem and starting apps
> is still very slow. (even on a Dual P3 with 256 MB)
> On one machine (P1-233, 64 MB), there is only ONE (KDE) application to
> run at all (besides the X11 server) and it takes 20 seconds to start
> up (from flash memory). Because several other KDE processes have to be
> started first.
> 
> I think this is quite some fundamental topic and too late for 2.0
> Maybe you can work out something for past 2.0 times(?)
> 
> Bye,
> 
> Frank
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