[aKregator-devel] Akregator 3.5.6 startup performance improvement and cleaner UI patches

[Robert K. <rob...@gm...>]

Hello,

I noticed recently that Kontact startup was taking a long time, even
on a warm startup.

I did some profiling using callgrind and found that aKregator was the
culprit, since it creates an Article instance for every article in its
archive on startup.  I had about ~ 7000 articles in the archive.  The
Article constructor accesses the archive backend to get some basic
information ( publication date, status and hash ).  These accesses
seem to be expensive ( for 7000*3 at least ).

Attached is a patch against the KDE 3.5 kdepim branch of akregator
which loads this information on-demand instead of in the Article
constructor.
On my system it reduced the startup time for standalone Akregator from
2.5s to < 0.5s.

I also wanted to make the UI look cleaner by removing the frame around
the HTML viewer and the frame around the article list itself.  A
second patch is attached for this.

I am not subscribed to this list to please CC me in to any replies.

Regards,
Robert Knight.