Re: objprelink and KDE/QT
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Jens Benecke wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 08:36:14PM -0600, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
> > Ok folks,
> >
> > I know at least one person is interested in this as he's been beating
> > me up over this for a week. :) So...here's an update and info.
>
> I guess we are all interested in a speed boost. GREAT Work!! ;)
>
> > For x86 builds we are now using the objprelink process. What does this
> > mean to you? Well on average a 20%-30% increase in application start..
> > .....qt will be uploaded tonight most likely. KDE 2.2 (final) packages
> > will be out soon and we'll see if this helps some of you on older
> > hardware.
>
> This is really great work. Thanks a lot!! ;)
>
> (I have a heap of older machines to maintain (P-233 mostly) and they are
> just barely useable with KDE2. This should make a lot of difference if it
> works.
hehe, you probably just need more RAM, and patience. :)
I'm running on a 486DX2-25 (64M RAM); once you get past the startup
time, and figure out you can't jump around between more apps than will
fit into RAM without paying a swap time penalty... it works quite well
for basic tasks. Of course, you disable anything with `animate' or
`hover' in it, and don't expect stuff that requires a lot of number
crunching to be fast (e.g., rendering HTML is almost as fast as
Netscape, but converting XML to HTML then rendering is painful because
it happens at the wrong time ;-).
Ivan, THANK YOU
- Bruce
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