Evolution crawls on FreeBSD

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:22:43 -0500, Alexander Leidinger  
<Alexander at Leidinger.net> wrote:

> Quoting Roy Marples <roy at marples.name> (from Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:34:18  
> +0000):
>
>>
>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:14:22 -0500, "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7 at cox.net>
>> wrote:
>>> Tweak in LDFLAGS wasn't good enough. It doesn't change anything. marcus
>>> has found a way to hack in Evolution libtool to add '-Wl,--as-needed'  
>>> and
>>
>>>
>>> finally helps Evolution to start up a lot faster. You can see the
>>> difference:
>>>
>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/evolution.txt
>>
>> That's a lot faster :)
>
> How was this measured? "time evolution" + click on close?

Yeah, I let it loads up full and wait a bit to click on close (like 2-3  
seconds).

Cheers,
Mezz

> The patch could maybe speed up gnucash and gimp too.
>
> Bye,
> Alexander.


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