Re: gnome-metadata

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel gnu org>]

> If we're going to guess at random slowdowns I suspect the sheer size of
> our libraries is a big part of the problem; demand-loading and
> demand-initialization might help a lot to reduce the number of pages that
> get hit on startup, and we could do that as part of a new GnomeApplication
> object.

I know a lot of time is spent locating libraries, mmaping them and
doing relocations at startup.  I wonder if we could assemble a big
libgnome-all.so that we can link applications against (from all the
relevant .so files) and use that on a day to day basis.

miguel.