On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Sebastian Kügler <se...@kde.org> wrote: > > On Friday, April 29, 2011 14:55:01 Markus Slopianka wrote: > > Am Freitag 29 April 2011, 12:52:18 schrieb Lydia Pintscher: > > > Aaditya applied for a Season of KDE slot. He wants to work on speed > > > optimization. Do we have a nice project for him? > > > > Depends what he finds slow. > > A possibility would be to either help the Platform modulation effort to cut > > down dependencies (if helping hands are still needed there). > > Another could be to reduce the number of dependencies that are loaded during > > startup (if he finds startup slow). > > A third possibility would be to utilize kdelibs-mobile for desktop use and > > maybe work downstream in OBS to offer a SC based on kdelibs-mobile. > > Profiles are not meant to be used that way. They're cutting out features that > might already be on a given platform or don't make sense for mobile and > embedded use cases at all, but these features are still needed by many > applications. > > There is no magic silver bullet :) > > That said, I think startup performance would be a very nice project, with high > impact. The way to go here would to use bootchart and a profiler to find out > where most of the time is spent, and then making that code faster. Should be > quite fun :) > > Cheers, > -- > sebas >
Note, that some work on this was done last Season of KDE (http://dot.kde.org/2010/12/29/season-kde-2010) by Yuvraj Tomar. It would be worth trying to build upon whatever he did, so that we're not duplicating work. Especially if he has written any useful profiling tools. David Edmundson > > http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 > _______________________________________________ > Kde-soc-mentor mailing list > kde-soc-men...@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-soc-mentor
