Number of dynamically linked libraries (Was: Re: Gtk+4.0)

2016-06-22 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 05:07:46PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > > 2. Add experimental features through external libraries (libsexy and so > > on?) > and linking a large number of tiny libraries has a measurable startup > cost for applications. https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2008/10/07/towards-

Re: Number of dynamically linked libraries (Was: Re: Gtk+4.0)

2016-06-22 Thread Simon McVittie
On 22/06/16 13:14, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > Time for another Project Ridley? Maybe; or maybe the benefit of those 30 extra libraries outweighs their cost (CPUs are faster now than in the GNOME 2 days after all), but we still shouldn't introduce more without good reasons. If there is a compelling

Re: Number of dynamically linked libraries (Was: Re: Gtk+4.0)

2016-06-22 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Wed, 2016-06-22 at 14:14 +0200, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 05:07:46PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > > > 2. Add experimental features through external libraries (libsexy > > > and so > > > on?) > > > > > and linking a large number of tiny libraries has a measurable > >