comments on KDE performance tips

[Neil Stevens]

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On Monday January 13, 2003 05:34, Philippe FREMY wrote:
> - use special kernel. What are the desktop kernel option ? Pre-emptive
> and I don't remember the other. Gentoo has it.

That will only really make a difference for preventing artsd skips,=20
especially if you turn on realtime priority.

> - compilation tricks would be a nice addition to the page. IIRC, there
> is --enable-final, something with combreloc and of course, the
> prelinking. Optimising for your CPU might be a good idea too. Latest gcc
> also produces faster programs ?

Any page on compilation should also mention objprelink.  One doens't need a=
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whole new toolchain just to have better startups.  It should mention=20
fast-malloc and enable-final.
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