GNOME Optimization

Joel Bryan T. Juliano joelbryan.juliano at gmail.com
Thu May 11 06:01:20 BST 2006


On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 12:54 +0800, Joel Bryan T. Juliano wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 19:31 -0700, 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?
> > 
> > -- 
> >  - mdz
> > 
> 
> Yes, it removes the whitespace between the tags, but does not affect the
> data inside the tags. The tr command makes everything in a single line.
> 
> By doing so, it will compress the file, making the file small. and the
> applications who load them, will parse these tags with less effort.
> 
> JB

And because the file is compact, memory requirements for them will be
small.

JB

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Joel Bryan T. Juliano <joelbryan.juliano at gmail.com>
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