On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 20:28:03 +0300 John Found <johnfound at asm32.info> wrote:
On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 14:51:32 +0100 Jeremy Henty <onepoint at starurchin.org> wrote:
John Found wrote:
"First" means first after restart of the computer. I am not sure if later, after some other programs started the startup time is not again slow. You know, such things are pretty hard to track. But even after the "first" startup, the subjective impression is that the dev versions starts much slower than 3.0.5; But once started, they render (and generally browse) faster than 3.0.5.
Completed going off tangent here. I had a day off work today, and was just messing around, and found something amazing - dwm - a single binary windows manager! http://dwm.suckless.org I am using it now. I just timed my lowly notebook, [6 years oldish] from turning on, entering BIOS password, boot up (no X), start X into dwm and then launch Dillo on the Internet... 38 seconds (timed from my new Seiko watch as my old watch got smashed when I was knocked of my bicycle on the way from work 7 weeks ago). Took me a hour or so to get the hang of the thing how it works though: http://dwm.suckless.org/tutorial Had to alter config.h to use 'xterm' and not 'st' terminal. 38 seconds... bloody ridiculous! God knows how fast it is on a modern day desktop. Nick -- Gosh that takes me back... or is it forward? That's the trouble with time travel, you never can tell." -- Doctor Who "Androids of Tara"