Re: Startup time poll

[Carl Nygard <cjnygard fast net>]

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 00:05 -0500, muppet wrote:
> If you happen to have Gtk2 and Time::HiRes installed, please run this 
> script a few times, and post your first-run time as well as a typical 
> value from a few later runs.[1]  Your OS, system speed and amount of 
> ram, and also whether you're using local or remote display, will be 
> helpful for context.
>
>
> [1]  On some OSs, the first run will be longer than the later ones, 
> because the system has to load the library from disk, but later runs 
> will have it cached in ram.


[carl traveler bin]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 9
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz
stepping        : 5
cpu MHz         : 598.201
cache size      : 1024 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov pat
clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 tm pbe est tm2
bogomips        : 1182.72

[carl traveler bin]$ gtk2-perl-startup-timer.pl

time to load Glib 1.040: 0.121s
time to load Gtk2 1.040: 0.435s
time for Gtk2->init:     0.022s
total startup time:      0.577s
   Glib built for 2.2.3, running with 2.4.8
   Gtk2 built for 2.2.4, running with 2.4.14

[carl traveler bin]$ gtk2-perl-startup-timer.pl

time to load Glib 1.040: 0.021s
time to load Gtk2 1.040: 0.058s
time for Gtk2->init:     0.022s
total startup time:      0.101s
   Glib built for 2.2.3, running with 2.4.8
   Gtk2 built for 2.2.4, running with 2.4.14

[carl traveler bin]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 9
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz
stepping        : 5
cpu MHz         : 1595.203
cache size      : 1024 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov pat
clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 tm pbe est tm2
bogomips        : 3153.92

[carl traveler bin]$ gtk2-perl-startup-timer.pl

time to load Glib 1.040: 0.008s
time to load Gtk2 1.040: 0.025s
time for Gtk2->init:     0.011s
total startup time:      0.044s
   Glib built for 2.2.3, running with 2.4.8
   Gtk2 built for 2.2.4, running with 2.4.14