[Nautilus-list] Nautilus2 performance

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

I'm pleased to report that Nautilus 2 is performing very quickly
relative to Nautilus 1!

On my system (PII 450 192 Megs RAM):

Startup time (window open and loaded, desktop loaded and drawn)
    nautilus1: 16 seconds
    nautilus2: 9 seconds

New window (empty folder)
    nautilus1: 9 seconds
    nautilus2: 4 seconds

Time before first signs of new window appear:
    nautilus1: 5 seconds
    nautilus2: 1-2 seconds

New window (/var/www about 50 files of various types, about 15 are
pre-thumbnailed images)
    nautilus1: 10 seconds
    nautilus2: 5 seconds

Change location (/var/www)
    nautilus1: 2 seconds
    nautilus2: 2 seconds

This is with the sidebar on, and "News", "Notes", and "History" sidebars
turned on. All these were done with the cache cold: a fair amount of
random GNOME use not touching Nautilus to see if under reasonable load
some stuff might get swapped out.

These are really terrific results :-)