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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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