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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Re: [dot] [notify] The KDE 3.2 Beta 2 User Review
From:       Eva Brucherseifer <eva () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-01-20 9:20:20
Message-ID: 200401201020.20066.eva () kde ! org
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Am Freitag, 16. Januar 2004 13:58 schrieb Waldo Bastian:
> On Fri January 16 2004 08:55, Bo Thorsen wrote:
> > Best guess? He got a faster machine.
> > 
> > AFAIK, there have not been any real speed improvements done.
> 
> I disagree.
> 
> > Of course
> > there are areas where the implementation have improved, but no big
> > architectural work was done.
> 
> But the architecture is ok already :-) It's all about implementation
> improvements.
> 
> Seriously though, there are no major bottlenecks in KDE. It's just that
> certain actions do really stupid things that wastes a lot of time. Fixing
> 10 of such issues can make quite an improvement. And their have been much
> more than 10 of such fixes. But if you use CVS from day to day you don't
> notice because when selecting a new webpage becomes 0.1s faster you will
> not really immediately notice and a week later you will have gotten used \
> to it anyway.
> 
> Take for example kdelibs/kio/kio/kservice.cpp r1.150: it gives you back a
> full 2 seconds of 2.4Ghz cpu-time during startup.

What about mentioning the great tools (afaik mainly valgrind and \
kcachegrind)  that were used to achieve this type of optimization within \
the anouncement?  They were developed alongside kde and they prove the \
majority of the platform  for development.

Greetings,
eva

> 
> Cheers,
> Waldo

 
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