Startup improvement: how?

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Tue March 16 2004 12:11, Leen Toelen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've heard a lot of praise for the application startup improvements
> especially noticable in the latest kde releases. Is this a global change
> to the kde core classes, or are the changes optimizations to the
> applications themselves? I would love to learn more on how the change
> was achieved, is there a document explaining the improvements somewhere
> or are they just small changes everywhere?

Mostly a collection of small changes. Biggest improvements usually happen in 
the application space when something is just handled very inefficient, 
typically the first version of a program implements something in a very 
straight forward way and then when the program / dataset grows it turns out 
to become more and more of a bottleneck. Other than that, we (Dirk Mueller 
mostly) managed to cut down the number of libraries that got loaded for KDE's 
initialisation code (kcminit) during startup.

Cheers,
Waldo
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