Re: [Sugar-devel] Research: 0.84 Launcher Cost

2010-10-28 Thread Dipankar Patro
Hello James, I was going through the discussion over the bug #2080 handled currently by Anurag. I too was thinking of replacing the animation algo, which currently is sine function. I was having some questions in mind after looking at your research. When launcher is disabled, the time saving is

Re: [Sugar-devel] Research: 0.84 Launcher Cost

2010-10-28 Thread James Cameron
G'day Dipanker, My research was not intended to propose a design change. I'm happy with how the launcher appears, and I think it adds considerable value to the learning experience of the child. I'm slightly not happy with delaying the startup of an activity, and I see that as a defect. I don't

Re: [Sugar-devel] Research: 0.84 Launcher Cost

2010-10-28 Thread Gary Martin
On 28 Oct 2010, at 04:34, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: Earlier in the context of SL#2080 patch review, I had said the launcher is stealing CPU cycles from the startup of the activity, the task run queue shows this during a launch. I wonder if activities might start up faster if

Re: [Sugar-devel] Research: 0.84 Launcher Cost

2010-10-28 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 02:41:48AM +0100, Gary Martin wrote: On 28 Oct 2010, at 04:34, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: Diagnosis: removing the launcher animation saved between one and four seconds of startup time. The saving was greatest for the Moon activity. Agreed, when Wade

[Sugar-devel] Research: 0.84 Launcher Cost

2010-10-27 Thread James Cameron
Earlier in the context of SL#2080 patch review, I had said the launcher is stealing CPU cycles from the startup of the activity, the task run queue shows this during a launch. I wonder if activities might start up faster if there was no launcher, just a busy cursor. Looks like activities would