> I dug a bit deeper into the cachegrind results with tdecachegrind and
> spotted an obscure codepath that was responsible for a significant
> fraction of the startup instructions.  I have committed a patch for that
> problem in GIT hash 30c5994; can you please rebuild TQt3 and see if the
> slow startup time is resolved?  You don't have to rebuild tdelibs or
> anything else, just TQt3.

I rebuilt tqt3 with the latest commit. My stopwatch tests:

GIT shortlog version 8443, Oct. 30

kate: 1.54, 1.29, 1.35; avg.: 1.39
konqueror: 1.47, 1.61, 1.57; avg.: 1.55
kmail: 2.09, 1.96, 1.97; avg.: 2.01

GIT shortlog version 8665, Nov. 10, tqt3 patched with commit 30c5994

kate: 1.84, 1.50, 1.51; avg.: 1.62
konqueror: 1.70, 1.73, 1.70; avg.: 1.71
kmail: 2.48, 2.58, 2.49; avg.: 2.52

GIT shortlog version 8665, Nov. 10, tqt3 unpatched

kate: 1.97, 1.94, 1.80; avg.: 1.90
konqueror: 3.60, 2.83, 3.21; avg.: 3.21
kmail: 3.72, 3.39, 3.47; avg.: 3.53

Quantitatively, improved from the unpatched, slower than Oct. 30. Qualitatively, I notice but how much other users will notice remains unknown.

Darrell