Speed sensation

[Waldo Bastian]

On Tuesday 15 April 2003 20:28, Eray Ozkural wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 April 2003 19:20, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > being familiar w/kicker's code base and knowing what a spaghetti mess it
> > is in certain places (it's been through so many generations of
> > development...), i'm interested: what did you trim down? did you remove
> > certain applets? icons? extensions? did you remove actual code? what was
> > the start time before and after (the different of 4-5 seconds is
> > impressive, but if it went from 6 to 1 seconds it's much more impressive
> > than if it went from 15 to 10 seconds.)
>
> /me wonders if it isn't possible to do something like running the whole
> code during KDE startup with a profile build and see it as a single gprof
> output. that will help spot the slower fellows.

The following command
	strace -tt -f -ff -o /tmp/kde.strace startkde
provides some insight in what happens and can be helpful in identifying 
obvious braindamage.

Cheers,
Waldo
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