--------------------- Real Time (s) ---- Inkscape Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Run 5 Average ============================================================== 0.35 0.125 0.119 0.118 0.119 0.120 0.120 0.36 0.142 0.140 0.142 0.144 0.151 0.144 0.37 0.200 0.195 0.193 0.196 0.195 0.196 0.38.1 2.289 2.317 2.297 2.303 2.309 2.303 CVS 0.720 0.725 0.727 0.732 0.720 0.725
--------------------- User Time (s) ---- Inkscape Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Run 5 Average ============================================================== 0.35 0.096 0.092 0.091 0.094 0.098 0.094 0.36 0.117 0.111 0.119 0.114 0.113 0.115 0.37 0.166 0.166 0.170 0.172 0.162 0.167 0.38.1 2.216 2.228 2.223 2.233 2.244 2.229 CVS 0.645 0.652 0.665 0.654 0.645 0.652
--------------------- System Time (s) ---- Inkscape Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Run 5 Average ============================================================== 0.35 0.014 0.013 0.016 0.014 0.010 0.013 0.36 0.011 0.016 0.011 0.013 0.016 0.013 0.37 0.026 0.022 0.021 0.016 0.025 0.022 0.38.1 0.040 0.036 0.034 0.036 0.031 0.035 CVS 0.046 0.035 0.034 0.046 0.044 0.041
I got curious about startup times, from bug reports that we've gotten from 0.38.1 users. I downloaded all the past Inkscape releases and replaced their gtk_main() call with exit(), and timed how long each took to get to that point.
These tests were run on a 3GHz P4 with 512K cache and 1G RAM.
Sure enough, 0.38.1's startup was significantly slower than previous releases. Good news it looks like CVS is much improved, although it's still slow compared with 0.37 and before.
Bryce