You wrote: >At the first look amarok is works much better. In the SUSE's release if I >was closing it to tray and the open it again (just click on the tray icon) too >many times/second amarok was getting stuck, even with small playlists (less >than 15 songs). Tried this with my optimized RPM version and there is no >problem, even with large playlist (9h+ playtime).
I think you are highlighting an interesting problem: benchmarking. When you want to convince somebody (users,Suse) that the changes are beneficial, you should be able to quantify exactly how much faster it is. On my system amarok does not get stuck, no matter how often I click. Another option we might want to explore is using icc (the Intel C++ compiler). There is a free version for college/universtiy students that allows you to compile software with "non-commercial licenses only". I think that applies to this project. The German Linux Magazin recently had a comparison of gcc 4.0 against icc 9.0, where the icc was around 10% faster for bzip2. The effect was smaller or even negative for other software, but at least for _some_ applications you can get considerable speedups using icc. Cheers nordi --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
