Bug#252148: zenity is S L O W

[Michel Dänzer]

On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 18:40 +0200, giacomo boffi wrote:
> Package: zenity
> Version: 2.6.2-2
> Severity: important
> 
> disclaimer: zenity is  S  L  O  W  on *my* system
>             this is, imho, an "important" bug, as it severely detracts
> 	    to the usability of the package
> 
> please look at the attached little benchmark, you can see that
> instantiating a zenity dialog takes MORE than 10 times the cpu needed
> to load xemacs, execute its startup files, to instantiate a fully
> decorated (menus, toolbars, pixmaps) frame and to close it, and what's
> more important, it takes more than FIVE seconds of wall clock
> 
> ps: the figures below are recorded after repeated executions of zenity, to
> have a chance that the zillion libs it depends are cached at the moment
> of the benchmark

If other GNOME apps are slow to start up as well, this could be
something like http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=240620
or http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=242664 .


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