[desktop-discuss] Weaning myself off /usr/dt/bin

[Peter Tribble]

On 2/8/07, Ian Collins <ian at ianshome.com> wrote:
> Peter Tribble wrote:
> > The downside is the following:
> >
> > % ptime sdtimage -snapshot
> >
> > real        1.526
> > user        0.055
> > sys         0.024
> >
> > % ptime gimp
> > This is a development version of GIMP.  Debug messages may appear here.
> >
> >
> > real       12.191
> > user        7.342
> > sys         0.569
> >
> > And it took very much longer the first time I ran it...
> >
> But how much of that time was spent generating the png file?  Or were
> you saving in the same format for both?

Sorry, that's just the startup time - how long it takes for the
application to appear and to kill it using the window manager.
The actual work time is dominated by me selecting the region,
I expect. The real point is that if you want to grab a region then
sdtimage is effectively instant, while waiting for the gimp to start
up involves a definite break which is always bad.

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