Denis Washington wrote: > Hello, > > While informing myself about ways to reduce GNOME's startup time, I > found a site named "Analyzing and Improving GNOME Startup Time" on > gnome.org [1]. Among other things, it talks about the possibility of > merging together the several gconf xml files to bigger trees, which > seems to dramatically reduce startup time. As stated in the text, a > patch for this was commited, but quickly reverted in 2004 because of > legacy support issues [2]. > > My question: is the big amount of small XML files still as much of a > problem in the current gconf version as in 2004? And if yes, are the > reasons for which it was rejected still legitimate today? The problems > arised with GNOME versions >2.6 which want to use the same database; > we're at version 2.18 now.... > As far as I know, this is definitely fixed in gnome 2.16 onwards, but could be integrated in an earlier release too.
-Ghee > I think if it still brings significant startup time reductions, we > should seriously consider to get this patch into GNOME 2.20. > > Regards, > Denis > > [1] http://www.gnome.org/~lcolitti/gnome-startup/analysis/ > [2] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138498 > _______________________________________________ > gconf-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gconf-list > _______________________________________________ gconf-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gconf-list
