I don't know about others, but when I run gtk+ apps on windows, they usually run at either the same speed or slightly faster than native windows mfc applications. The only time they slow down is during heavy network access for some reason, but otherwise they run quite well for being on windows, which is not the native platform for gtk+. On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 15:50:32 +0300, Victor Nazarov <vir@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm using Debian every day... And I've been trying to find why I prefer > MS Widows GUI over Gnome. Now I've undesrtood. It's responsiveness. So I > know that gtk+ is superior over Win32 becouse of it's portabillity and > the most important is the ease of programming with it. But Gnome and GTK > applications are considerably slower than Win32 applications. The time > betwean the execution of application and the creation of the > application's main window is very long... So I'd like to hear some > opinions why is it so? I don't like to buy new, /modern/ computer, I > want Gnome to work as fast as Windows 2000 does... > > Here is my opinion: I think the main problem is that gtk prefer > run-time over compile time... So programmer binds callbacks on signals > at run time... In win32 the compiler does it when compils WinProc > functions switch statement... There are many other such examples. But I > like gtk API and I don't whant to use clumsy Win32 API. IMHO it's not a > good idea to separate application code from the description of user > interface (separated XML file for example). So I suggest to write a > preprocessor for the gtk interface, something like yacc... So different > statements of the preprocessed language will generate an array that will > represents a whole window with all the widgets properly initialized, > only some small subset of data, depending on the execution environment > will be initialized at run-time. The task of the main function will only > initialize minimum fields of array representing the window, point some > gtk function to this array and run gtk_main... What do you think about > this proposal? > > -- > vir > > _______________________________________________ > > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > -- http://thisnukes4u.net _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
