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Re: KDE: Speed issues



   Hanno,

That is pretty interesting post. I have never even looking into building my 
own kde. I think tho, that it could be a pretty kewl option for debianers. 
Have a really nice readme that really tells what all the options do and how 
to do it the 'debian way' .. Really sounds quite interesting.

In fact, how about something like a script the 'autobuild' kde per platfrom? 
One would download the source and run the script and bingo, a brand new 
locally built for your particular box product! I'll put it on my 'roundtoit' 
list. :)

On Wednesday 21 March 2001 10:57, Hanno Mueller wrote:
> Hi,
>
>            the exceptions optimization literally reduces the size of
>            everyting related to qt by several megs a piece with no
>            detriemntal effects. -03 is important because it
>            turns on inlining, which is a big win for C++ code with
>            lots of tiny functions. And optimizing for modern chips should
>            be standard for anyone. These changes sped up my KDE load time
>            by 50%, and made the whole thing feel much "snappier" and
>            smoother. Don't let KDE2 get a rep for slowness just because
>            you used lousy compiler options. (and yes, I posted something
>            similar to the kde2.0 article, but I'm going to repeat it until
>            the packagers get it right)
>
> Is he right? Could I help my machine by doing own builds for some specific
> packages? Which ones? (I doubt that -mpentiumpro will help me on my
> Pentium MMX, though.)
>
>
> Greetings,
>
> Hanno

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