Re: Removing xrdb for 10% startup win?

[John Rice <John Rice Sun COM>]

Dyslexic what can I say ;) Thanks Padraig.

JR

Padraig O'Briain wrote:

> John Rice wrote:
>
> > 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
>
>
> Make that /usr/lib/cpp
>
> > 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
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