On Monday 04 October 2004 15:13, Vince Negri wrote:
Out of the box "time kate" reported 4.5s.
Pre-linking kate cut about 0.5s off this time. (A little poking about seemed to show that pre-linking cut 0.5s off the loading time of most KDE apps.)
But I also noticed that doing an "export LANG=C" before launching kate cut a full second(!) off the startup time. (My default LANG on this box is en_GB.UTF-8)
A quick analysis of the output from "strace -r konsole" showed that indeed, it was taking about 1 second for X11 to parse the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose file.
Perhaps one of the reasons that some people have reported 9.1 as feeling slower than 9.0 is the change to UTF8 as the default locale in SuSE?
Thank you very much! With your suggestions it is much faster now. On this machine kate launch time went from 6.3 down to 4.3. konsole from 5.4 to 3.3. It is still not as responsive as this kde 2.2.1 I'm using now (Suse 7.3, the best so far), but it is coming closer. What am I missing with the LANG =C setting? How to enable it system wide? One final note: your findings show that performance really seems to have been forgotten. And the saddest part is some people are blind enough not to recognize it.