On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 09:52 +0100, Michael Meeks wrote: > I was wondering; since [ in most cases ] now the icon data is shared > across processes in the mmapped image cache; is it the case that we can > mostly avoid loading the respective gdk-pixbuf loaders, and libjpeg / > libpng etc. for most apps ? [ and hence their various dirty pages / > linking slow-down etc. ]. > > Strangely, when I look at small / large apps (zenity / gedit) - they > seem to manage to pull in libpng and often libjpeg anyway. Any idea > why ?
Oooh, interesting. We may very well be able to avoid loading the pixbuf modules until later. Can you play a bit to see when _gdk_pixbuf_load_module_unlocked() gets called for a simple app like zenity or gedit? I *think* that's what loads each module the first time it is needed. Federico _______________________________________________ Performance-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/performance-list
