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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] graph with startup times for release notes
From:       Sebastian =?iso-8859-15?q?K=FCgler?= <sebas () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-05-02 21:04:18
Message-ID: 200605022304.18786.sebas () kde ! org
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On Tuesday 02 May 2006 22:50, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 May 2006 07:49, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> >  I had to create new bootcharts, they're attached, showing new and old
> > state, both with warm (e.g. when using some kind of preload tool like in
> > SUSE) and cold caches. The time when KDE is ready is when the CPU usage
> > bar drops to zero (you perhaps might want to explicitly draw a line there
> > to make it obvious). Technically. Although the cold caches comparison
> > shows that the patch makes even real difference, the main difference is
> > the perceived one - even in the warm caches cases, where there's almost
> > no measurable difference, it still feels faster because KDE is already
> > usable despite still some ongoing activity in the background.
>
> could you point out (even aprox) where on the boot chart kde becomes usable
> on the new charts?
>
> to the marketing people, my suggestion for the charts would be to do
> something like:
>
> 3.5.2 XXXXooooooooooooo
> 3.5.3 XXxxoooooooo
>
> 'X' would be a hot colour (red?) and represent perceived boot, 'x' would be
> a cooler colour (light orange?), 'o' would be light color (light grey?) and
> show cold cache times. extra points for gradients ... a small legend would
> describe what was being seen and the x axis would be labeled as seconds..
>
> this boils it all down to two little easy to grok lines. we can link to the
> full bootcharts and lubos' blog from a footnote.
>
> thoughts?

Indeed. The graphs are in this form nothing you would want to put into release 
notes, but a graphic showing the vast improvement is certainly nice, and 
backing it up (creating it based on) this data helps a lot.

Thanks Lubos!
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