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From: blu at scrunch.net (Bob BLU)
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 16:15:56 -0500
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At 03:35 PM 3/5/2006, jbk wrote:
> I'm currently running 32 bit Fc4 ... I also am dual booting Fc5test2-3 ...
> I also notice that gnome applications load noticeably quicker. ...
> ... I don't know if gnome has streamlined their code

FWIW:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=404&num=2

>One of the areas improved with Fedora Core 5 thanks to GNOME v2.13/2.14 is speed Improvements throughout the desktop. The font rendering has been improved as well as a new memory allocater dubbed GSlice in GNOME v2.14,

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