On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 00:05 +0100, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 23:27, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:27:43PM +0100, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: > > > it is an incredible piece of crap. Start gnumeric and try browsing > > > its help. Yelp needed 4 (FOUR) CPU minutes to display something on > > > a PII/400 and it was not a RAM problem but the stupid thing trying > > > > I think you have a problem. WIth FC2t1 it takes a celeron 800 about 10 seconds > > from hitting the help menu item to getting the complete formatted index. > > > > It was a vanilla, out of the box FC1, swapping was nil and there was no > other activity. The four minutes was not elapsed time but CPU time > (read through PS). The help displayed was not the general Gnome index > (quite fast) but the Gnumeric one. While rendering the Gnumeric help > yelp polluted my home directory with a lot of html files. From memory, > the box was configured for US/English as default language. You should try it again with FC2. Yelp 2.6 is really fast (you cannot compare it with the previous versions) it takes 2-3 seconds to render the Gnumeric help with an Athlon XP 2200+. Jan Arne Petersen
