On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 09:57, Craig Ringer wrote:
>>> Is it me, or is this Beta2 snappier than RH9 ?
>>
>> Not just you.
>> I've noticed it too.
>>
> me too - which makes me happy coz rh9 is a bit of a slugger on my machine.
Any information on what may be behind the performance improvements?
Smaller binaries (hence less disk I/O)?
More efficient app init (esp GNOME/KDE)?
Memory footprint reduction?
Compiler changes?
(insert other blind guesses here)
I'm interested, as much as anything to know whether it actually affects
me (long-time XFCE4 user, don't like GNOME/KDE).
Any gains in interative "feel" between Red Hat Linux 9 and Beta2 are
very likely kernel changes. A compiler change that sped everything up
10% would be close to a miracle, and wouldn't have a noticeable
effect on most operations.
GNOME and KDE have not undergone any fundemental changes since RHL 9
(GNOME 2.2 => GNOME 2.4 is mostly features in individual apps.)
Changes in kernel scheduling and VM/IO policy can have quite a
noticeable effect on overall feel; unfortunately, a gain in one place
may well be a loss somewhere else... it's not something that can be
easily quantified and measured.
Regards,
Owen