> > Hi All, > > > > I just got word from a decision maker in Uruguay that they are very > > concerned about "performance". They say that Sugar is slow. I'm probing > > to get more details but I want to evaluate the options in parallel. > > > > Focus is on improving this in 8.2.0. > > > > Here are the areas I can think of: > > - Activity launch time > > I know we had some threads on this but I don't know where we stand. Can > > I get an update and an evaluation of what it will take to greatly > > improve this? > > > > - File/activity open > > Can we improve this? A piece of the latency here may be due to a large > > Journal being much slower. Can we "chunk" journal reads or otherwise > > improve the speed of opening files? Can we speed up journal access in > > its own GUI too? > > > > - File save > > What is the bottle neck on save? Let's create a test case for this. > > > > - Task switching > > I've seen some threads on this. Can someone summarize it and give me a > > hard number to show how we have improved? > > > > - Hardware > > Can anyone evaluate how much faster it would be with twice the RAM? Is > > the NAND slowing us down?
I think a great idea to speed it up would be to have a puppy linux as a base operating system, instead of a fedora 7.0. Fedora needs more resources than we have in an XO. I'm new here, i don't know how this works, just an idea.
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