Re: To Discuss: Application Startup Time

["Liam R. E. Quin" <liam holoweb net>]

On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 12:11, Andy Ross wrote:

> Yes, but the current bug is due to all apps doing thousands (!) of
> stats on the critical path.  Any reduction is fine, it doesn't need to
> be an algorithmically optimal solution.  There are severe maintenance
> problems with on-disk indexing that need to be weighed as well.

Would it help if the theme manager (where users select a theme) managed
a single directory at the front of the icon path, so that almost always
the correct icon would be found on the first attempt, and the code could
just use an open(), moving on only if it failed and the error was
"no such file or directory" (or platform specific equivalent)?

Liam

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