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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: optimizing
From:       George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-04-30 4:39:43
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On Monday 30 April 2001 00:31, Pupeno wrote:
> On Monday 30 April 2001 00:56, Scott Manson wrote:
> > On Sunday 29 April 2001 09:47 pm, Pupeno wrote:
> > > As long as my computer is a Celeron 400 with 32 mg of ram, but a very
> > > bad mother board, everything runs very slow here, I don't know really
> > > why, but I would like to optimize kde to run better in this computer,
> > > so I'm going to compile, I would like to know, what optimizations can I
> > > use (safetly), which flags, etc, etc... could you help me please ?
> > > Thank you...
> >
> > I am afraid no matter what optimizations you use you won't notice any
> > speed up at all with just 32M of memory.  Any "speed up" you get will be
> > negated by swap file usage.  In this case your best bet would be to at
> > least get 32M more Memory is very inexpensive and IMHO that would be your
> > best option.
> >
> > Other wise the only advice I can give you would be -02 -march=pentium
>
> Sorry, I didn't specify it correclt, I'm running with 128mb of ram... why
> -march=pentium, isn't there any optimization for pentium II (Celeron)?

  I have been running KDE 2.x on my c433 laptop with 64mb and later 128mb ram 
and it works quite well.  I'm not sure that you'll see all that much speedup 
beyond what --enable-final gives you.

-- 

George Staikos

 
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