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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Faster startups by fixing C++ object files before linking (new version and results)
From:       Roberto Teixeira <maragato () conectiva ! com ! br>
Date:       2001-07-31 12:55:09
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Em Sex 27 Jul 2001 21:51, Lauri Watts escreveu:
> On Saturday 28 July 2001 02:21, Andreas Pour wrote:
> > Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
> > > On Samstag, 28. Juli 2001 01:07 Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > > > I think we should seriously consider to use this for KDE 2.2 by
> > > > integrating it into the build system. I had one report though that it
> > > > failed with
> > >
> > > Yes, I fully support this. It's a great improvement for me at least :)
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > While I think too this is a great innovation, is it really appropriate
> > to release this w/out a beta test in a stable release?  Who knows what
> > different combinations of binutils/linkers/loaders/compilers will do.
> > It might cause rather severe problems, making KDE unusable.  Some of
> > these problems could be avoided if there was a "configure" switch
> > labelled "experimental" to enable this, and then the distros can at
> > least verify that it works on their particular systems when building the
> > packages.
>
> Or, put it in place for 2.2.1, and that gives us a month or so of testing
> (if anyone but the docs and translators will be testing in 2.2.1 that is!)

IMHO, this is just a too big improvement to be left aside. The speed gain is 
considerable and we'd be reducing, if not killing, one of the most common 
(_the_ most common?) complains about KDE: speed.

OTOH, I really think we should not let it be included as default, so I am 
really in favor of using a configure option, disabled by default.

	Roberto.

-- 
Roberto Teixeira, maragato@conectiva.com, maragato@kde.org
 
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