init observations

[Rahul Sundaram]

Dave Mitchell wrote:

>On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 02:12:57PM -0500, Dimi Paun wrote:
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>>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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>A quick strace of gedit startup on a FC3 system shows it doing over 3000
>opens, which break down as:
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>1980 .icon files
>1265 miscellaneous
>  76 .so files
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Perhaps the gedit or GNOME performance lists would be a better place to 
analyse and provide such feedback.

regards
Rahul