Kdeinit is a process launcher somewhat similar to the famous init used for booting unix.

it launches processes by forking and then loading a dynamic library which should contain a 'kdemain(...)' function.

using kdeinit to launch kde applications makes starting a typical kde applications 2.5 times faster (100ms instead of 250ms on a p-iii 500) it reduces memory consumption by approx. 350kb per application.

contains debug symbols for kinit.