Re: do we really need xrdb?

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

Rodrigo Moya wrote:

>I've just sent a patch
>(http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnomecc-list/2005-October/msg00024.html)
>for using -nocpp where possible.
>  
>
Given the problems mentioned before with parsing Xresources without a
cpp, is this actually worth it?

>From previous messages, I was under the impression that the main
slowdown came from paging gcc into memory.  Changing some, but not all,
invocations to not run the C preprocessor wouldn't affect that.

A patch to change all xrdb invocations to "xrdb -cpp
/path/to/a/small/cpp" would probably provide better results without the
compatibility problems.

James.