Bug#288692: acknowledged by developer (This is already like this)

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Sat Jan 28 22:49:41 UTC 2006


Le samedi 28 janvier 2006 à 16:36 +1100, Peter Eckersley a écrit :
> Hmmmm.  I still notice much higher latency for a new window opened by running
> "gnome-terminal" than for one opened from the File menu.  Perhaps this is an
> IPC overhead?

This is caused by the need to load the binary and all its libraries,
while it will just send a request to the running instance. I think the
overhead introduced by CORBA is negligible, compared to the time needed
by the dynamic linker to load the binary.
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