Re: Speed suggestions (previously about laptop performace)

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Owen,

On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 14:36, Owen Taylor wrote:
> in gtk+/configure.in to remove the optin and then recompile GTK+,
> I think things will be a lot better.

	Thanks, that works a lot better - sadly the top N functions on that
basis are:

	TT_load_SNFT_Header   2178
	g_main_context_poll   1755 [ amazing idle time in there ]
	pango_x_font_cache_load 558
	FT_New_Stream           348
	_gdk_x11_copy_to_image  141
	g_file_test             114
	gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file 84
	gdk_draw_rgb_image_core  57
	gdk_flush                57
	FAMOpen2                 48
	MiniXftFileCachReadDir   48

	etc. which rather re-inforces my feeling that font loading is the
pre-eminent slow down, accounting for the majority of startup time -
then again, my profiler is a pretty blunt tool; no fontconfig,
freetype-2.0.9 etc. etc. I suppose it's only really worth looking at
this again with fontconfig builds.

	Regards,

		Michael.

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