brainstorming for UDS-N - Performance

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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Kees Cook wrote on 04/10/10 17:38:
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> On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 10:28:14AM +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
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>> Well then, here's a simple task to start with: We should have a single
>> graph showing, for every application installed by default in Ubuntu
>> over the past six months, how long that application took each day to
>> show a non-splash-screen window after a cold launch.
> 
> Is that actually a meaningful measurement? For the desktop team, I
> would expect day-to-day operational timing to be more interesting.
> (e.g. firefox start-up happens once, but rendering facebook could
> happen repeatedly.)

Firefox launch speed is important for the same reasons that Ubuntu
startup speed is important. Other things may be more important for
individual applications. But once we're graphing anything at all, other
people will think of those things better than you or I can.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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