Re: On the cost of libraries

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 1 Sep 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> Alan Cox <alan redhat com> writes: 
> > Nautilus spends most of its time on an Athlon550 running bonobo-ui code
> > when starting up to an empty directory view. The link overhead is visible
> > (0.2 seconds or so) but fixing bonobo-ui would be a much bigger win.
> > 
> > There is a disk cost - mostly from paging being fair randomly ordered and
> > there groping the code would help because linear page load is about 25Mbytes
> > per second while random on a modern ide disk is closer to 3 or 4 and can be
> > worse.
> > 
> 
> This would also explain the instant-restart I guess, because on
> restart no windows are open, just the desktop needs starting (no
> bonobo-ui).
Not really. The desktop window uses bobono-ui a lot too.
 
> Lots of recent bonobo-ui fixes though - maybe it's finally fixed
> "enough"...

We'll have to do some measurements.

/ Alex