<div dir="ltr"><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Hi All,<br>
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> I just got word from a decision maker in Uruguay that they are very<br>
> concerned about "performance". They say that Sugar is slow. I'm probing<br>
> to get more details but I want to evaluate the options in parallel.<br>
><br>
> Focus is on improving this in <a href="http://8.2.0./" target="_blank">8.2.0.</a><br>
><br>
> Here are the areas I can think of:<br>
> - Activity launch time<br>
> I know we had some threads on this but I don't know where we stand. Can<br>
> I get an update and an evaluation of what it will take to greatly<br>
> improve this?<br>
><br>
> - File/activity open<br>
> Can we improve this? A piece of the latency here may be due to a large<br>
> Journal being much slower. Can we "chunk" journal reads or otherwise<br>
> improve the speed of opening files? Can we speed up journal access in<br>
> its own GUI too?<br>
><br>
> - File save<br>
> What is the bottle neck on save? Let's create a test case for this.<br>
><br>
> - Task switching<br>
> I've seen some threads on this. Can someone summarize it and give me a<br>
> hard number to show how we have improved?<br>
><br>
> - Hardware<br>
> Can anyone evaluate how much faster it would be with twice the RAM? Is<br>
> the NAND slowing us down?</blockquote><div><br>I think a great idea to speed it up would be to have a puppy linux as a base operating system, instead of a fedora 7.0.<br>Fedora needs more resources than we have in an XO.<br>
<br>I'm new here, i don't know how this works, just an idea.<br></div></div>