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