Re: b-a-s .server files & cold start ...
- From: Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>
- To: michael meeks novell com
- Cc: performance-list <performance-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: b-a-s .server files & cold start ...
- Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 18:05:52 +0100
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 09:51 +0000, michael meeks wrote:
> So,
>
> Reading loads of scattered files is bad for cold start - as we all
> know; I was just poking at the .server files that we parse on login:
> and, it turns out there are a ton of scattered files [ which are also
> biggish - due to the non-scalable in-line translation scheme sadly
> but ... ].
>
> Anyhow - so we could trivially merge a load of these by just grouping
> together .server files:
>
> + Merge gnome-applets .server files - 18 -> 1
> + Merge Evolution .server files - 6 -> 2
> + Merge bonobo .server files - 4 -> 1
> + Merge VFS .server files: 2 -> 1
>
> + Net saving: 25 files (of 64) => 40% fewer files.
>
> Since we have to read them all at startup anyway, there should be no
> performance loss; also - should be rather easy to do in the source.
>
> I guess the biggest win is in gnome-applets ...
>
built packages with these in: http://w3.suse.de/~rodrigo
--
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>
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