Just did an experiment:
$ for N in `range /1..10/`; do time inkscape keys.svg; done 6.70user 0.20system 0:07.40elapsed 93%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (2356major+10607minor)pagefaults 0swaps 6.71user 0.24system 0:07.77elapsed 89%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (2356major+10621minor)pagefaults 0swaps 6.64user 0.25system 0:07.74elapsed 88%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (2356major+10621minor)pagefaults 0swaps 6.70user 0.24system 0:07.79elapsed 89%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (2356major+10621minor)pagefaults 0swaps 6.68user 0.25system 0:07.76elapsed 89%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (2356major+10621minor)pagefaults 0swaps 6.65user 0.27system 0:07.48elapsed 92%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (2356major+10622minor)pagefaults 0swaps 6.74user 0.15system 0:07.63elapsed 90%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (2356major+10621minor)pagefaults 0swaps 6.75user 0.19system 0:07.54elapsed 91%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (2356major+10622minor)pagefaults 0swaps 6.72user 0.23system 0:07.49elapsed 92%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (2356major+10622minor)pagefaults 0swaps 6.69user 0.23system 0:07.47elapsed 92%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (2356major+10607minor)pagefaults 0swaps
So keys.svg consistently takes under 7 sec to load (I pressed Ctrl+Q as soon as it came up), although it takes quite a load on CPU. However the music playing on XMMS during all of this did not hitch a slightest bit. The CPU is Athlon 1200, 512Mb RAM, kernel 2.4.24.
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