Re: Removing xrdb for 10% startup win?

[Michael Banck <mbanck debian org>]

On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 11:37:31AM +0100, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
>   So how about GNOME doing this instead:
> 
> 	1- stat(~/.Xresources) --> if fail return
> 	2- stat(~/.Xresources.compiled)
> 	3- if "~/.Xresources.compiled does not exist" OR
> "~/.Xresources.compiled older than ~/.Xresources":
> 		3.a) run "cpp ~/.Xresources -o ~/.Xresources.compiled"
> 	4- Run "xrdb -nocpp ~/.Xresources.compiled"

Why not grep for any preprocessor statements, and only run cpp if some
are present?


Michael

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