#5228 HIGH Retriag: launching activities is slow

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#5228: launching activities is slow
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  Reporter:  tomeu   |       Owner:  tomeu            
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  new              
  Priority:  high    |   Milestone:  Retriage, Please!
 Component:  sugar   |     Version:                   
Resolution:          |    Keywords:  performance      
  Verified:  0       |    Blocking:                   
 Blockedby:          |  
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Comment(by bernie):

 Replying to [comment:26 tomeu]:

 > Nice to see that we agree at last. Now we need to know which modules
 will make a difference when moved somewhere else.

 The only ones I've observed being outrageously slow were gtk and numpy.
 I've been told that telepathy and dbus are also

 I used a very sophisticated profiler.  Here's the source code, released
 under the BerniePublicLicenseV3:

 {{{
 time for i in `seq 1 10`; do python -c 'import gtk'; done
 }}}

 Use it responsibly, and never cross the beams!

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