Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skribis: > > When I really want a program to start quickly, though, I use the > > sticky bit, so the program stays in memory. I think this is the > > default for GNU Emacs. > > Eh? That's a rather dated use of that bit, AFAIK.
Thus it gets very little use. :) In my experience programs that start up slowly often have bugs causing it. For example, Opera slows down dramatically if you have a lot of fonts, which I do; because of this, I run Opera under a separate fontconfig. Programs that use Pango, such as Inkscape, can be slow to start up if you have a lot of fonts, though they won’t slow down, once started, as dramatically as does Opera. GIMP has its own code for listing your fonts and starts up quickly. -- Barry.SCHWARTZ at chemoelectric.org http://chemoelectric.org Free stuff / Senpagaj varoj: http://crudfactory.com (PDF) 'Democracies don't war; democracies are peaceful countries.' - Bush (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/12/20051219-2.html)
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