comments on KDE performance tips

Alexander Neundorf kde-optimize@mail.kde.org
Tue, 14 Jan 2003 17:01:00 +0100


On Tuesday 14 January 2003 01:05, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> On Monday 13 January 2003 23:26, Maks Orlovich wrote:
> > > No, it takes _alot_ longer to compile, but might give minor speed-ups.
> > > That's why it is default off.
> >
> > No, it's about 2x faster to compile, of course, you can't do incremental
> > compliation.
>
> On your machine? Interesting... Computationally it is more demanding, but
> it issues fewer IO calls (although it accesses the same amount of data)

On my old K6/200 --enable-final was the only way to get KDE compiled without 
waiting for days.

Bye
Alex