Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 9th Oct 2005 11:20 UTC, submitted by carbon-12
Gnome At the GNOME summit in Boston, Federico Mena-Quintero held a presentation titled "Making GNOME Fast". You can view the presentation in .html and .odp.
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Going the wrong way
by on Sun 9th Oct 2005 11:51 UTC

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Every report I read about GNOME tells of brave new features, background indexing, etc

If you want to run faster you need FEWER features not more of them. That way lies BLOAT, which is exactly the problem.

RE: Going the wrong way
by on Sun 9th Oct 2005 14:07 in reply to "Going the wrong way"
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>> If you want to run faster you need FEWER features not
>> more of them. That way lies BLOAT, which is exactly
>> the problem.

No. That's definitely not where all the bloat is.

It's how it's programmed. Read the slides: if you spend too much time on doing useless things (at the same time), you'll end up with a slow program (that's only on reason of course).

Even a "hello world" type of program could be made sluggish that way.

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