GNOME Optimization

[Trent Lloyd]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> Please don't cross-post to so many lists; this belongs on ubuntu-devel.
>
> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 07:38:23AM +0800, Joel Bryan T. Juliano wrote:
>   
>> Hi, I made another script that will optimize GNOME's Gconf database to
>> make GNOME more faster and responsive.
>>
>> Significant improvement is visible in the top menu panel. Where menus
>> appears almost instantaneously, which reminds me of menu_show_delay in
>> windows :-)
>>     
>
> That sed expression is a bit difficult to read, but it looks like what it's
> doing is removing the whitespace.  Is that correct?  Does this really make
> such a difference?
>
>   
I guess that he is trying to avoid reading excessive white space on the 
disk? I suspect that you could remove a fair chunk of read data on the 
disk in doing this, (for example, I have seen this approach with an 
external proxy server to speed web page download times on dial-up) i 
would be curious as to exactly how much and what kind of speed increase 
this gives you, notably on slower devices, e.g. laptops.

Trent