On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Gary C Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1 Oct 2008, at 13:49, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > >>> as you probably installed previously the Wikipedia activity, my guess >>> is that the jffs2 gc thread was taking most of the CPU. >> >> If I understand correctly, this raises the possibility that other >> actions performed *prior* to the launching of an Activity can >> noticeably affect the time it takes to launch that Activity. >> >> Would someone else please launch XaoS, and see what kind of >> "response time for the launch" they get? >> >> Tried it again, after the XO had sat there overnight (having now >> hopefully done everything it needed to, for jffs2 housekeeping). >> For me, the "launch screen" for XaoS pulsed for 100 seconds before >> the "activity screen" was drawn. [My guess is that it is >> calculating the fractal picture before showing it.] > > Hi Mikus, > > XaoS on my XO B4, launches instantly. No seriously, it's absolutely > the fastest launching activity. Here's the rub, because its so quick, > it even beats the launcher window getting going, the working activity > is hidden behind the launcher pulse effect window, which now can't > tell that the activity is actually already running so does its blind > 'I'll sit here and strobe for a fixed time-out because I have no idea > what happened.'
Yes, ticket please! =) Thanks for the report. > Take a look in the frame and you'll see the default grey circle that > you can switch to. > > Worth a ticket if there's not one already, it's an interesting case in > how quick XO-1 HW really is with the right software (must be and > absolutely massive price being paid currently for having the Pyhton > environment I'd guess, but I'm sure there is a whole heap of > optimisation to be made if/when made a dev cycle focus and team > resources made available). > > Made some great strides for 8.2, fingers crossed for 9.1. > > --Gary > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > Sugar@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar