Re: [wmii] can't start firefox

Well, I said it was late. When I build fluxbox and ion, STRIP= was in my
make.conf. A stripped fluxbox is 1.4M and ion is 264K. The differences are
still telling.

On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 02:38:00AM -0400, Kris Maglione wrote:
>It's late here, so let me clarify that I sometimes forget that people on
>mailing lists use anything other than the development head of a given
>program. The wmii releases specify -O2 (although -O3 works perfectly well
>and gives noticable speed improvements) and do not include debuging
>information. The binaries, however, are still not stripped. strip -s
>removes ~15k, or about 10% (Note that a stripped Ion is ~328k, fluxbox is
>~8.4M).
>
>On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 02:17:46AM -0400, Kris Maglione wrote:
>>On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 10:06:25AM +0800, ze phyr wrote:
>>>My response is revelent, you just didn't get the point.
>>>The ultimate solution or 'fix' is to quit using it and wait for until
>>>wmii-faster to come out.
>>>
>>>A peek on sysload will give you an idea that this 'sleek' WM hogs so
>>>much system resources.
>>
>>Not to feed a troll, but I've had good looks at the codebases of several
>>WMs, including wmii, Ion3, and fluxbox, and wmii is, by far, the leanest
>>of all of them. Nevertheless, if you want a fair comparison between wmii
>>and other WMs in terms of speed, add -O or -O2 to the CFLAGS in config.mk,
>>as other WMs do. If you want a fair comparison of binary size, strip
>>wmiiwm, as other WMs do (~75% of the size of the default binary is
>>debugging information).
>>
>>As a side note, this thread had nothing to do with speed.

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Kris Maglione
The "think positive" leader tends to listen to his
subordinate's premonitions only during the postmortems.