[sugar] Re: [OLPC-devel] pygtk performance issue

[Richard Smith]

> > A simple pygtk app is opening around 700 files on startup, a lot of
> > these being ENOENT, and stat-ing another 200. A large part of the
> > startup time seem to be due to this.
>
> one might argue that any app that opens 700 files on startup is not
> simple :-)

Dave Jones agrees.

http://lwn.net/Articles/192214/


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Richard A. Smith