Hi, Daniel Egger <degger@xxxxxxx> writes: > On Feb 11, 2004, at 10:51 pm, Nathan Carl Summers wrote: > > > IIRC, didn't early versions of OS X have truly pitiful amounts of > > shared memory available? Perhaps that is the reason. > > So now I recompiled GTK 2.2.4 with SHM and I cannot sense any > difference in behaviour. However scrolling in gnumeric is still > as slow[1] as before. Did you increase the shared memory limit? I am not sure what happens if it the X server hits the limit but I guess it just silently stops allocating more shared memory. So unless you changed that limit, it's not surprising that there's no difference to be sensed. > I must say that GTK 1.2 runs like a charm here, even without > SHM. GIMP 1.2 starts in a couple of seconds with all plugins on a > cache cold system and is snappy all over... > > I really need to try 2.0 soon.... >From my experience GIMP-2.0 runs very nicely on MacOS X. I even had PS users claim that the GIMP-2.0 user interface would feel more responsive than PS on the same machine. Sven
