The good news with SuSE-9.0 is that emacs starts almost instantly once you remove unneeded startup files from site-lib (my compliments to GNU and SuSE). The bad news is that qt applications start up slower with every release -- the example "Hello World!" takes 5-10 seconds to start. I just got through compiling the examples for the wxGTK c++, library, and I am thoroughly impressed with how fast they start. Does anyone on this list use wxGTK in "real" world applications?