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Michel

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2004-07-31

Posts: 286

kde got quite fast

Heya,

just some rambling about kde ...
I'm subscribed to testing and I have to say that the last version of kde seems to be quite fast. Although I'm using it lightly at the moment, it feels fast. I normally use xfce4 and maybe the current kde is at least as fast as xfce4/gtk ... Anyway it seems to be quite fast ...

Can it be that qt4 is supposed to make kde faster?

Michel

phrakture

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From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: kde got quite fast

it's probably the gcc visibility changes... it makes loading of libraries faster and dso method lookups faster... well, that probably has alot to do with it, considering the libraries in kde have alot of stuff that should be hidden...

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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: kde got quite fast

KDE is fast (can be faster than GNOME on slower machines) because it preloads a whole lot of stuff into RAM. In my experience, current versions of KDE will be irritatingly slow on any machine with less than 192 megabytes of RAM. 384 megs seems to be enough for very good performance.

(On machines with faster hard drives, GNOME performance doesn't seem to be a problem.)

mxcl

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From: MK; UK

Registered: 2004-05-26

Posts: 39

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Re: kde got quite fast

KDE is fast because Qt is fast. KDE devs routinely don't care about performance, but luckily this is rarely important since Trolltech do.

This is flamebait, sorry:

I've never used a machine where KDE doesn't feel more responsive than Gnome. And this is solely because GTK is not well optimised.

I say this as a professional software developer, sure I use Qt professionally, so I may be biased. But generally I'm a balanced guy. Check my google profile.

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Romashka

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Registered: 2005-12-07

Posts: 1,054

Re: kde got quite fast

This thread is almost 2 years old!
There's no point to resurrect it.

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Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

Posts: 5,986

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Re: kde got quite fast

This thread is almost 2 years old!
There's no point to resurrect it.

Quite True

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