On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 11:49:41PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le samedi 28 janvier 2006 ? 16:36 +1100, Peter Eckersley a ?crit : > > 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 this is an > > IPC overhead? > > 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.
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 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. > -- > .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ > : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] > `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom -- Peter Eckersley Department of Computer Science & mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] IP Research Institute of Australia http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~pde The University of Melbourne
