init observations

Dimi Paun dimi at lattica.com
Wed Nov 16 19:12:57 UTC 2005


From: "Bill Nottingham" <notting at redhat.com>
> It's disk seek on shared libraries, almost certianly. It's the majority
> of lag time on *any* startup these days, including the OS itself.

OK, that's reasonable. However, I'm not sure we should just accept that.
How come notepad starts up fast on Windows? They don't have seeks?
And besides, what libs does gedit need on a fully loaded GNOME desktop
that are not already loaded?

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Dimi Paun <dimi at lattica.com>
Lattica, Inc.




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