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Dolphin 26.08 and KIO, part two: what got faster and smaller
Quoting: Dolphin 26.08 and KIO, part two: what got faster and smaller - KDE Blogs —
This is the second half of what changed in Dolphin 26.08. The first half is what you can see: the features, the behaviour changes, the bugs. This one is what you can measure.
Dolphin does very little file work itself. It asks KIO, so the numbers below are mostly KIO numbers: 6.25 is the version that shipped alongside Dolphin 26.04, 6.29 is the one that ships alongside 26.08, four framework releases and 294 commits apart. The last section is 6.30, the release still to come, since several of its changes are large enough to be worth showing early.
Every figure here was measured on the same machine, with the two versions built the same way and run one after another, round by round. Where a number is not solid I say so rather than rounding it up.
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Car: Dolphin 26.08 and KIO performance improvements
Méven Car has written a pair of interesting blog posts (part 1, part 2). The first post is largely about some of the recent new features and performance work that have gone into the Dolphin file manager 26.08 release, as well as the KIO framework. The second looks at the performance improvements and benchmarks for previous, current, and upcoming releases.