KDE Versus Xfce

[Erik Harrison]

On 12/20/05, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
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> On 12/20/2005 3:45 PM, Erik Harrison wrote:
> > Lubos Ludak has been doing some performance profiling for KDE. He's
> > been using Xfce startup as his benchmark. Given dropping some things
> > from KDE to "match" Xfce featurewise, he's matched us for startup.
> >
> > He also nicely provides the bootchart, showing a profile of Xfce's
> > disk and CPU utilization. He even capitalizes Xfce right.
> >
> > http://www.kdedevelopers.org/blog/280
>
> Ugh, xfdesktop takes forever to start, and I imagine it's worse in SVN
> (well, actually, maybe a draw, since I improved the initial menu
> generation time).  Methinks I need to sit down with sysprof for a while.
>
> Would be nice if xfce4-session could start stuff in parallel, though I
> figure that's probably non-trivial to implement, else Benny would have
> done it.

I believe he's even mentioned it.

  That chart seems to show some sleeping slices (disk I/O?) near
> the start of all apps such that parallel startup might yield faster
> overall startup.
>
>         -b
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