Carl Hartung wrote:
Firefox loads in RC1 here in just under four seconds, click of launcher to my local bookmarks.html. jEdit, which is java-based and truly cross-platform, takes maybe eight to ten seconds on both sides, click of launcher to last edited document being opened automatically.
I just haven't put much stock in comparing "loading" times because I'm much more concerned with overall stability and consistent responsiveness when I'm pushing the system and working hard.
Have a look at the SUPER standard benchmark at [1] and look how the start times of OpenOffice changed between beta3 and beta4. It is 11 seconds versus 3 seconds on the same system! This makes it _feel_ a _lot_ faster. When you are new to Linux and your word processor takes 11 seconds to start, what will you think about Linux's performance? You will think it sucks and have a bad first impression. And you never get a second chance to make a good first impression! What do you think why there is so much work going into speeding up the boot-process? For stuff like jEdit that is very user specific I have written PePr [2]. Try how much it improves startup time of jEdit on a newly booted system. You could safe a couple of seconds. This is no big deal, but it makes the system feel much smoother if some stuff is preloaded. Cheers nordi [1] http://www.opensuse.org/SUPER_standard_benchmark [2] http://www.opensuse.org/SUPER_preloading