+1
Heikki Toivonen wrote:
We need to make a decision with regards to bug
https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4192, which is about
shipping Chandler with prebuilt repository to speed up the first startup.
First time startup is about three times slower than when starting with
an existing empty repository. On my computer first time startup takes 10
seconds, on the PPC Mac mini we use for performance tests it would take
about 45 seconds.
The rationale behind this bug is that first time impressions are
important, and if the very first time to launch Chandler takes forever,
it leaves a bad impression.
Personally I am against this for various reasons:
* This would mean either shipping with a prebuilt repository, which
would increase the download size quite a bit (on Linux the first empty
repo is 15M uncompressed, 5.2 M gzipped, or the absolute minimum, 1.8 M
when using gzipped repository backup where files that will be
automatically rebuilt have been removed), or generating the repository
during install time by launching Chandler at the end of installation (we
don't have installers for all platforms, and users can get Chandler
without installer as well; Launching at the end of install is kind of
rude, and can lead to confusion in other ways.
* Even with prebuilt repository, we'd need to copy the prebuilt repo to
the correct location on first startup, which would in itself also slow
down the first startup.
* It seems like a fair bit of work for just the first startup.
My suggestion is to change the progress messages for first startup
splash screen to say something like "Constructing database" to make it
clear that this only happens once.
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