Re: Removing xrdb for 10% startup win?

[Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo colitti com>]

Alan Cox wrote:
> decus cpp is good enough in my experience to process these files, about
> 40K and public domain. Its ANSI-ish but not strict and perfect in all
> respects. The ACK pre-processor is also now free and might be useful but
> does rather more than would be wanted.

These seem both to be a little bit old and are not packaged by many 
distributions. As an alternative, I've been looking at mcpp:

http://www.m17n.org/mcpp/index_eng.html

It's more recent, about 93k in size, and reads no external libraries. 
Replacing cpp with mcpp decreases startup time by ~1s on my system.

If we want to use mcpp, we would need to either pass "-cpp mcpp" to the 
calls to xrdb both in the X init scripts and in gnome-settings-daemon, 
or to configure xrdb to use it, e.g. by detecting mcpp's presence at 
X.org compile time and using it if it's there.

Comments?


Cheers,
Lorenzo