Re: Removing xrdb for 10% startup win?

[John Rice <John Rice Sun COM>]

Lorenzo - thanks for the pointer.

Padraig Obriain had a look into using mcpp on Solaris, but in his 
digging he trussed xrdb and found that on Solaris 10 its not exec'ing 
the compiler to do the preprocessing. Someone appears to have already 
hacked up a more light weight preprocessor for just such an occasion 
[its located at /usr/bin/cpp, not /usr/sfw/bin/cpp]. So use of mcpp is 
not required on Solaris.

JR

Lorenzo Colitti wrote:

> John Rice wrote:
>
> > Lorenzo - I built Erwann's patch for JDS on Solaris 10 and saw a 
> > reduction from 10 xrdb calls in gnome-settings on startup to 3 :) If 
> > you aren't seeing the multiple xrdb calls maybe this is Solaris 
> > specific. 
>
>
> Actually, I was wrong: I see multiple calls to xrdb too, it's just 
> that they don't show up in the bootchart because they don't last long 
> enough (bootchart by default purges processes that are active for less 
> than 0.4s).
>
> > Will give your mcpp idea a spin and see what effect that has.
>
>
> Yesterday I posted a patch to fd.o bugzilla which makes xrdb use mcpp 
> by default if available at runtime:
>
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4325
>
> I don't know if you use the same code for xrdb, but if you do you 
> might want to try the patch out.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Lorenzo
> _______________________________________________
> desktop-devel-list mailing list
> desktop-devel-list gnome org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list