Has The performance been forgotten?

[Karl Vogel]

Lubos Lunak <l.lunak at suse.cz> wrote in
news:200410041228.18762.l.lunak at suse.cz: 

>  Which means there's probably something wrong with the setup. I
>  recently spent 
> some time extensively profiling KDE startup, I'm about to finish
> updating the KDE performance tips, and I'll publish them shortly. I
> suggest you check them after they're announced, maybe you'll find the
> reason for your slowness. 

Something I just noticed in an strace of konsole.. processing the XLocale 
stuff on my lowly P2-400 takes 1 second. 

I know very little of this part of X11 (XIM), but I was wondering if this 
slowness is something specific to the Fedora Core setup?!

I did a quick test by removing the following line:

en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE:                        en_US.UTF-8

From:
    	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locale.dir

(en_US.UTF-8 = my current locale, ie. LANG=en_US.UTF-8)


Konsole starts faster (2 seconds instead of 3 => 33% speed increase), but 
it does show a warning at startup:

$ time konsole
Qt: Locales not supported on X server
QInputContext: no input method context available

real    0m2.020s
user    0m0.981s
sys     0m0.323s


It works fine for the rest... so I wonder if there isn't some opportunity 
here. (for the people that don't need special Input methods)


Maybe worth a bullet on that KDE performance tips list :-)