comments on KDE performance tips

[Neil Stevens]

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On Monday January 13, 2003 06:13, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > Any page on compilation should also mention objprelink.
>
> Nope, it shouldn't. Its a bad hack, that makes the common case slower,
> and cases unreproduceable crash reports. If we educate somebody, we
> should educate them using the right approach, not bad hacks :)

And what's the alternative?  Tell them to learn a foreign language while=20
waiting for KDE apps to load?

Just state the facts, then:  that some people report great success, and=20
others blame it for crashes.

> > whole new toolchain just to have better startups.  It should mention
> > fast-malloc and enable-final.
>
> fast-malloc is default, and --enable-final shouldn't give you
> significant speed advantage when actually running the build.
> --disable-debug does so, though.

Yes, --disable-debug too.  --enable-final I point out mostly to speed the=20
compilation process itself.

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