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Performance Love Day

Submitted by ebassi on Fri, 2005-10-28 07:58. GNOME
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On Sunday, October 30th, from 14:00 UTC until I fall asleep on the
keyboard, there will be a new GNOME Love Day, this time focused on GNOME
performance.

GNOME love day is a project to try to get developers become GNOME
hackers. There are lot of developers around who want to get involved
into GNOME development but they don't know how to do it. The idea of
GNOME love day is to get these developers joining #gnome-love on
irc.gnome.org as well as some current GNOME hackers, all together.

This love day will target performance: profiling applications, finding
bottle-necks and regressions, fixing filed bugs.

If you want to help making GNOME faster, go to the wiki page, pick a
task and join the #gnome-love channel on Sunday. But remember: every
day is a good day for giving GNOME some love.

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Submitted by Anonymous George on Sat, 2005-10-29 07:39.

Performance isn't dull. We are *finally* seeing some optimization dealing with the appalling performance of Pango. For years we've been hearing about how Pango has no hotspots (meaning only that it is uniformly dire)... and yet a few days work with a profiler has lead to some dramatic performance improvements demonstrating just what a bunch of slackers and liars the Pango/GTK guys really are. We can only hope that those improvements will be backported into pango used in the current Fedora Core 4 -- as, otherwise, FC4 users are going to be stuck in slug-slow hell until the next Core release (which is a nine month gap this time).

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