Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Up early; to work - triaged the mail somewhat bluntly,
while finishing the (Unix only) oosplash.bin re-write which has
several goals:
- To provide a spring-board for ridding ourselves of
soffice.sh, and its various spawned / shell helpers -
helps clean things up.
- Removing the quick-starter conditionality on
libpng, we can build without it (as we do for the generic
builds) - but just leave the splash to rather later: when
the main app launches
- To ensure we get our splash up really early (if at
all), before pagein / javaldx start doing tons of I/O.
The problem here was made noticeable by the new gnumake
code not stripping libraries, giving eg. a 700Mb libswli.so
to pagein when debugging - takes time even on an SSD.
Nonetheless for those with slow rotating disks, this should
make a noticable improvement in time-to-splash.
Eventually got this finished and committed, with all the
re-starting if unusual return values are returned etc. tested and
apparently working.
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Reviewed some bootchart pieces, call with Kendy, setup next
TSC call; boggled at the horrors of Microsoft's latest patent
aggression, and pleased generally by the insight of the technet
commenters.
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Worked late; discovered I'm in danger of loosing holdiay
this year - LibreOffice kept me rather busy it seems; bother.
My content in this blog and associated images / data under
images/ and data/ directories are (usually)
created by me and (unless obviously labelled otherwise) are licensed under
the public domain, and/or if that doesn't float your boat a CC0
license. I encourage linking back (of course) to help people decide for
themselves, in context, in the battle for ideas, and I love fixes /
improvements / corrections by private mail.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE,
Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
