Faster Launch of Activities

[Greg Smith]

Hi Ricardo,

Can you post your test description?

It would be useful to see a comparison of build 656 v 703 v 708 v latest 
joyride. That's a lot so just 703 (last release image) vs latest Joyride 
would the top priority.

Michael,

What is the latest version of Joyride that people should be testing?

I re-read your status e-mail July 12 and didn't see it in there: 
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-July/016457.html

I didn't click on all the links so let me know if I missed it somewhere.

Thanks,

Greg S

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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:56:37 +0200
From: riccardo <riccardo.lucchese at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Faster Launch of Activities
To: Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org>
Cc: devel at lists.laptop.org, greg at laptop.org
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On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 13:48 -0400, Chris Ball wrote:
 > > Hi,
 > >
 > >    > Let's get it on the roadmap for 9.1, when we've got time to
 > >    > actually make the fixes required and test them properly (unless
 > >    > someone really believes that speeding up sugar is a 4 line patch).
 > >
 > > I'd like to see an activity startup time comparison (just taken with a
 > > stopwatch) between 650, joyride before the new sugar shell but after
 > > rainbow prelaunch was added, and latest joyride.  We should do this
 > > before we ship 8.2, and in future we should try to publish changes to
 > > activity startup time alongside patches that touch activity launch.
 > >
 > > I was planning on doing this measurement myself, but it's not 
getting to
 > > the top of my stack.  Could I persuade someone else to volunteer?

I already have them for one of the latest joyrides.

For my work I normally take first start-up and second launch timings.

I haven't yet checked whether rainbow is now started after X in the
latest joyride or if this is coming soon in the next builds. Would make
sense for you to have the same timings taken also after restarting
rainbow ?

?I'm not familiar with builds changelogs since 650; let me
know from which of them you'd like these timings.

riccardo