Bug#288692: acknowledged by developer (This is already like this)

[Peter Eckersley]

On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 11:49:41PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le samedi 28 janvier 2006 =E0 16:36 +1100, Peter Eckersley a =E9crit :
> > Hmmmm.  I still notice much higher latency for a new window opened by=
 running
> > "gnome-terminal" than for one opened from the File menu.  Perhaps thi=
s is an
> > IPC overhead?
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> This is caused by the need to load the binary and all its libraries,
> while it will just send a request to the running instance.=20

Aha!  In that case, perhaps there should be a very small binary with just
enough stuff linked to check if another instance is running?  If not, it =
could
exec() the real binary.  A wrapper script even?

Maybe this is too much work for a small performance improvement, but=20
gnome terminals do feel slow to load, even on this newish Sempron box.

> I think the
> overhead introduced by CORBA is negligible, compared to the time needed
> by the dynamic linker to load the binary.
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