Comment 2 for bug 325724

Because that generic phenomenon seems to apply to all other apps I've seen... I mean, if even gnome's horrible login (20-30 seconds on cold start) can start in 5 seconds warm, surely gnome-do can start in 1-2 seconds flat. This kind of persistently slow startup is telling me there must be something wrong. Even openoffice writer starts in 2-5 seconds (without the quicklauncher) after having been launched once and then closed.

According to Federico's arguments, most of performance problems are due to excess work. This was indeed the case for specto (http://jeff.ecchi.ca/blog/?p=634) which, after analysis, went from a 10+ seconds warm startup to a <2 seconds startup time.

For the record, I am running Do without any plugins active (I just use it as an application launcher).