[ale] whats better about KDE?

[Chris Ricker]

On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Geoffrey wrote:

> >>Just did a little test on a brand new install of SuSE 8.1  KDE is 3.0.3, 
> >>Gnome is 2.0
> >>
> >>Following login,
> > 
> > 
> > what login program? a dm or on vc, then running startx?
> 
> 
> kdm

So you've got most of the KDE libs loaded already, but only some of the libs 
(ie, standard graphics libs and X libs) that Gnome uses. If their 
performance were the same, you'd expect KDE to start more quickly than 
Gnome....

> > libs.... If you play with the prelink stuff (assuming you've got a new
> > enough glibc / ld / binutils) it'll shave some time off, though it does
> > better w/ C libs (gnome) than C++ (kde).
> 
> This is a stock install of SuSE 8.1.

I dunno if that supports it, but if you have a prelink binary on the system,
you could try:

# prelink -mavR

(note: prelink is stable now w/ current glibc, but I don't know if SuSE's
current enough or not to use it reliably. If it breaks you get to keep the
pieces...)

After that finishes churning and you bounce the box, most load times should
be noticeably quicker.  You'll also have slightly reduced memory footprints.

later,
chris
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