GNOME Optimization

[Tony Lewis]

Simon Law wrote:
> Joel, you may want to generate a patch and provide comparison numbers
> for performance increases.  The decrease in legibility may be worth a
> large jump in conffile parsing.  But something small like 10% is
> probably not a big deal.
>   
I get a reduction from 19MB to 17MB.  (when testing by hand, cut and 
paste from Joel's script, and only to temp files, so no indication of 
whether this makes a performance difference or not).

tony at argon:~$ cd /usr/share/gconf/schemas/
tony at argon:/usr/share/gconf/schemas$ for f in *; do cat $f | sed -e '/^[ 
\t]*$/d;s,^[ \t]*,,;s,>[ \t]*<,><,g;s,[ \t]*$,,' | tr '\012' ' ' > 
/tmp/schemas/$f; done
tony at argon:/usr/share/gconf/schemas$ du -sh /usr/share/gconf/schemas 
/tmp/schemas
19M     /usr/share/gconf/schemas
17M     /tmp/schemas

Tony