D pointers

[Kuba Ober]

> > And except for very few cases it doesn't matter that your access is not
> > inlined. A typical GUI application is idle 99% of it's time. Things that
> > have to be fast are mostly startup, painting and processing of large
> > amounts of data.
>
>   In my KDE session right now, which "looks" like I am running KMail,
> Konqueror, and Konsole only, I have 26 k* applications running.  I guess
> that means 26% of the time my cpu is non-idle?  

Not really. I have kmail, a couple konquerors, konsole, panel/taskbar, an ide 
running under wine, opera and kate all open and on an 800MHz PIII system top 
consistently reports 97% idle.

Cheers, Kuba