[Bug 883752] Re: Software Centre is the most horrible, bloated and slow application I have ever used.

[Gary Lasker]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 876210 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/876210

Hi again Jamie. The Software Center devs have just returned from the
Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando and we have identified the work that
we plan to do this cycle. Performance (and in particular, startup
performance), is at the top of the priority list for improvement in
Precise. We have also identified other areas that need speed
improvement, and will address those as well.

You can see our current session notes and track our development plan is
we refine it over the next week or so at this blueprint:

  https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/consumer-p-software-
center-enhancements

Please also note the startup time charts that we are maintaining and
using to monitor our progress in this area (as linked from the blueprint
above). These measurements are measured on our chosen reference hardware
Dell Mini 10, which is a fairly low-powered machine.

For Natty, you can see that we were at about ~3s for startup:

  http://people.canonical.com/%7Emvo/software-center/mini10-startup
/startup-times.png

And for Oneiric (and currently Precise), we are currently at ~7s with
the 5.0.2 release (SRU) there:

  http://people.canonical.com/%7Emvo/software-center/mini10-startup
/start-times-oneiric.png

If you take a look at the second graph, you can see that at revision
2516 in software-center trunk we were at about 34s startup (!). This was
the version that was released with Oneiric final. Note the improvement
immediately after at revision 2517 that brings it to about 10s, and then
improves to about 6-7 seconds from there. The software-center version
5.02 SRU in Oneiric includes this improvement.

At this point I'll mark this bug a duplicate of bug 876210, as that is
where we will continue to track this issue. Please be sure to keep an
eye on that bug and add comments and your impressions at any time. We'd
love to hear from you so that we can be sure that the speedups as we
make them are noticeable for you and that they make your experience
using Software Center better. That's our goal!

Thank you for your help!

Best regards,
Gary

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 876210
   Ubuntu Software Center takes a long time to load

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Title:
  Software Centre is the most horrible, bloated and slow application I
  have ever used.

Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  The title explains it all.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: software-center 5.0.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.21-generic 3.0.6
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  CheckboxSubmission: c8f492d129becc27db8b0d9223313dfc
  CheckboxSystem: b845c366ea09c60efa3a45c1b5b21525
  Date: Sun Oct 30 07:31:55 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: software-center
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (15 days ago)

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