#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:29 bernie]:

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

 horribly slow?  I was missing the inspiration.

 I'm testing on my PPC at 1GHz laptop... results should scale almost evenly on
 the XO:

 {{{
 bernie at daneel:~$ time for i in `seq 1 10`; do python -c 'import numpy';
 done
 real    0m5.572s
 user    0m4.186s
 sys     0m1.196s

 bernie at daneel:~$ time for i in `seq 1 10`; do python -c 'import gtk'; done
 real    0m5.176s
 user    0m2.540s
 sys     0m1.127s

 bernie at daneel:~$ time for i in `seq 1 10`; do python -c 'import
 telepathy'; done
 real    0m4.058s
 user    0m2.517s
 sys     0m1.209s

 bernie at daneel:~$ time for i in `seq 1 10`; do python -c 'import dbus';
 done
 real    0m1.754s
 user    0m0.914s
 sys     0m0.762s

 bernie at daneel:~$ time for i in `seq 1 10`; do python -c 'import cairo';
 done
 real    0m1.433s
 user    0m0.747s
 sys     0m0.551s

 bernie at daneel:~$ time for i in `seq 1 10`; do python -c 'import sys'; done
 real    0m1.148s
 user    0m0.612s
 sys     0m0.442s

 bernie at daneel:~$ time for i in `seq 1 10`; do python -c 'pass'; done
 real    0m0.683s
 user    0m0.394s
 sys     0m0.251s
 }}}

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