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by Stof on Monday 20/May/2002, @10:00

How's Windows KDE's performance compared to Linux KDE?
Is it faster or much slower?

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Re: Performance
by Jeff on Tuesday 21/May/2002, @00:54

While I havent tried it out myself, I fully expect it to be slower. The reason is because there are some "go-betweens" between KDE and Windows namely X and cygwin. Essentially your computer would have to work harder since theres all those translation steps between KDE and Windows.

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Re: Performance
by hbc on Tuesday 21/May/2002, @02:18

It is significantly slower at starting apps. Once the app has started it is not too bad. It takes about 6 mins for startkde to complete on 500Mhz NT box with 1G of RAM.

The KDE1 version is a lot faster but still slower than a native environment.

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Re: Performance
by Maarten Rommerts on Tuesday 21/May/2002, @03:10

Uh, you really mean 6 minutes? Perharps a spellerror (meant to be 6 seconds)?
And if it is 6 minutes, is everything installed right and works everything correctly?

If this really is the case this sort of staruptimes are normal with very powerfull and fast computers THEN KDE ON WINDOWS REALLY SUCKS!!!!!

DUMP IT AND CONTINUE TO WORK ON LINUXVERSIONS!!!!....NO SUPPORTING OF THAT GATESSHIT-PLATFORM!!!

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Re: Performance
by hbc on Tuesday 21/May/2002, @04:39

Thats 6 minutes (no spelling error). Everthing is installed and works correctly though (even the sound).

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Re: Performance
by Ralf Habacker on Tuesday 21/May/2002, @08:40

This was only true for a pre alpha release. The beta release starts much faster (I have measured about 2 minutes (30 second for the second start) for the whole desktop on a PIII 733 MHZ Toshiba laptop).

Regards
Ralf

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Re: Performance
by cylab on Tuesday 21/May/2002, @15:34

1) its his fun project, so he will continue even if you continue to give such dumb comments.

2) if any developer will stop coding, because his code does not perform the way he wishes at the beginning, we wouldnt have any software at all. (anybody say mozilla :) )

3) i like it. particular in combination with remote x-sessions where no full blown x/window manager is installed.

4) if it runs, it runs.. i usually start my pc once and use it all day, so the 6 extra minutes for startup are marginal.

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Re: Performance
by Ralf Habacker on Wednesday 22/May/2002, @01:01

> 4) if it runs, it runs.. i usually start my pc once and use it all day, so the 6 extra minutes for startup are marginal.

... and this works also with laptop standby modes (expect combined with screen resolution changes on xfree currently), so you have to start only once a week or less.

BTW: Why does windows need so much time to start if many applications are installed ?
Answer: In the boot process they preload all the needed dll's, so that application starting time is usable. If this is similar done for kde, than the loading time is like the value for second starting.

Regards
Ralf
Enjoy kde-cygwin

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