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Re: mapplauncher

 

[6] includes some benchmark results

Cheers,
Andrea

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Rodney Dawes <rodney.dawes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 18:01 +0300, Zoltán Balogh wrote:
> > I know that there are security concerns about how the mapplauncherd
> > works.  After talking to the main developer (w00t on freenode) and
> > reviewing the code I have learned what the mapplaucnher is doing [7]
> >
> > If you have any experience or opinion about the topic please bring it up
> :)
> >
> > This idea looks very promising and piling off seconds from the app
> > starts is something we all are interest, but obviously not for the price
> > of compromising our platform's security.
>
> What are the real benefits of doing this? If this is to improve app
> startup speed, is there any significant and concrete data showing that a
> perceivable and significant increase in performance is made from this,
> compared against the normal execution of various types of apps, not just
> pure qml apps being run via qmlscene? Do we even have concrete profiling
> data showing where exactly the slowness is for all these various types
> of applications?
>
> This seems like a very over-engineered and complex way to work around an
> otherwise simple (albeit pervasive) problem.
>
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