init observations

[Dave Mitchell]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 02:12:57PM -0500, Dimi Paun wrote:
> OK, that's reasonable. However, I'm not sure we should just accept that.
> How come notepad starts up fast on Windows? They don't have seeks?
> And besides, what libs does gedit need on a fully loaded GNOME desktop
> that are not already loaded?

A quick strace of gedit startup on a FC3 system shows it doing over 3000
opens, which break down as:

1980 .icon files
1265 miscellaneous
  76 .so files


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