Auto-launching of applications

[Bruce Cowan]

On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 11:42 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Mark Shuttleworth [2009-02-25  9:20 +0000]:
> > In this case, there are definitely things we can do which would improve
> > both, and there are also things we can do which ensure that we only pay
> > the price the user *wants* to pay, *when* they want to pay it. For
> > example, deferring heavy lifting and parsing until we know the user
> > actually wants to proceed.
> 
> A considerable part of that price comes from firing up python, loading
> gtk, glade, and half a dozen other modules, etc. It's not easy to
> reduce that startup cost, short of rewriting u-m in C (which we don't
> really want IMHO).

Even taking Python into account, there's something wrong with a update
manager which uses ~70 MB of memory on start.
-- 
Bruce Cowan <http://launchpad.net/~bruce89>
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