>But we don't have to compare it with Windows. Let's compare it with >KDE. Let's take, for example, a very simple application, such as >Gedit. Forget huge applications such as Mozilla, let's just focus on a >simple one. > >Now, boot your machine on KDE, and fire up Kedit. Then reboot on GTK, >and fire up Gedit. Unless you've got very modern, you will see Kedit >fires up much much faster than Gedit. i must be ultra modern, then. gedit fires up slightly faster than kedit in all of 10 tests, including 5 done without flushing the buffer cache and 5 where the buffer cache was flushed every time. i guess fedora core 1 is ahead of its time :) oh, did i mention that some part of the machinery that kedit started running also crashed, and that appears to require or at least look for OpenGL? --p _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
