On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 2:44 PM, David Edmundson <da...@davidedmundson.co.uk>wrote:
> 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 > Interesting! Do you happen to know where i can find more information about that? I did found a dot.kde articly wraping up the SoK: http://dot.kde.org/2010/12/29/season-kde-2010 but that's about all i can find on that project. Did it get pushed into KDE? ... more details on this would be nice.
