Re: code bloat [was Re: Semaphore assembly-code bug]

From: Diego Calleja (diegocg_at_teleline.es)
Date: 10/31/04

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    Date:	Sun, 31 Oct 2004 15:06:37 +0100
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>

    El Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:25:38 -0400 Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> escribió:

    > I ageww it's a hard problem. Right now there is massive pressure on
    > Linux application developers to add features to catch up with MS and
    > Apple. This inevitably leads to bloat, we all know that efficiency is

    I don't think it's so bad (ie: it could be _worse_)

    There's some work going on to fix some "bloat problems" too, for example
    the x.org people are working in a sort of xlib complement/replacement (i
    don't know its real purpose) xcb which should help latency and code
    size. Composite itself is a nice way of avoiding that apps redraw their
    windows all the time. KDE "speed" is better is much better than a year
    ago, gnome 2.8 is also somewhat "faster" (compare nautilus in gnome 2.6
    vs the one in 2.8). Openoffice 2.0 also will have some "performance
    improvements" (see http://development.openoffice.org/releases/q-concept.html#4.1.3.Performance|outline
    and http://development.openoffice.org/releases/q-concept.html#3.1.3.Performance|outline)

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