Re: Garnome 0.13 problems

[Damien Covey <djcovey softhome net>]

Jeff Waugh wrote:

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> > I'm rather new to compiling packages but am interested in doing all I can
> > to improve the performance of my system.
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> What is your system, and what are the apparent speed issues?

I have a Celeron 1.1Ghz notebook with 256Mb SDRam Running Redhat 7.3. 
Being a notebook the HDD is quite slow, so I imagine that the best way 
to speed things up would be to load as much as possible into Ram on startup?

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> > I dont care if it takes me 2 days to compile Garnome I'll put in whatever
> > switches/option it takes to get it compiled most optimally.  Is there
> > someone that can help me with the switches that I should be using and what
> > sort of performance gains I might expect.  1%, 5%, 10% ?
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> Building with full optimisations is almost always a complete wank (it's not
> for very specialised stuff, such as sound and graphics things - things like
> the canvas, gdk-pixbuf, etc. do benefit a bit from various optimisations).
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> Building without -g and --enable-debug=yes will help. Everything else is in
> the mind of the optimisation fetishist.
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> Until you describe the speed issues you're having, we can't help you much
> with remedies.
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> - Jeff
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Sorry if it came accross the wrong way.  I'm not really having any speed 
issues as such, Gnome 2 seems a just as fast as Gnome 1.4, and Nautilus 
is lightning quick in comparison.  Just on the lookout for any ways to 
make it even faster.