On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 05:19:19PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 22/06/16 13:14, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > > Time for another Project Ridley? > > Maybe; or maybe the benefit of those 30 extra libraries outweighs their > cost (CPUs are faster now than in the GNOME 2 days after all), but we > still shouldn't introduce more without good reasons. > > If there is a compelling advantage to splitting up libraries, of course, > by all means do so. > > > And it doesn't count the dlopen'ed libraries, like for the GIO extension > > points. > > The application potentially has an opportunity to provide feedback to > the user before it loads all of those, at least. > > "Properly linked" hard dependencies seem likely to be a bigger issue for > GUI responsiveness than dlopen'd modules and *their* dependencies, > because we can't display anything (not even an empty window) until ld.so > has finished thinking about the relocations for hard dependencies, and > handed over control to main().
So, if someone wants to optimize application startup time, the features that rely on a GIO extension point can be initialized later, after the window is shown. Or maybe some extension points could be replaced by swallowing the lib into GIO. -- Sébastien _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
