Auto-launching of applications

[Michael Vogt]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 03:43:44PM +0000, Bruce Cowan wrote:
> 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.

I'm currently looking into improving this.

Cheers,
 Michael