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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: --enable-final again
From:       Stefan Taferner <taferner () salzburg ! co ! at>
Date:       1999-05-31 11:23:18
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On Mon, 31 May 1999, Waldo Bastian wrote:
[...] 
> > Suppose a 350kb program,
> > optimized 200 kb. Loading 150 kb from disk takes around 50msec (min), and a
> > Pentium 200 has 10 millions clock cycles in this time. It must be a hell of a
> > good optimizer that saves you that much clock cycles. Let's face it: if some of
> > our applications are slow at startup (e.g. kmail since 1.1.1), it's because of
> > poor design, and it will bring much more to improve design than to bet on the
> > optimizer of the compiler.
> 
> So true.

Yes.

Speaking of kmail: I also noticed this slow startup, but I don't know who/what
caused it.  Arose to me around the time since kmail is ensuring that it is only
started once. Could it be that there is a timeout in the code now? Hmm...

--Stefan

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