Hello, > So far I've only been using Sysprof: > > http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/news-2005-07.html#26 > > Federico Its really great to actually see something happen, since also on my more or less modern system GTK2 based gui programs feel much slower than compareble widget sets like QT3/4 or Fox-Toolkit based programs. Its really great at least a normal discussion seems to be accepted, any time anybody said something about GTK2's performance he was more or less banned with "GTK2 isn't slow" or the claim that its slowness is the price for all the new features. I do not think a P100 should be taken as a serious benchmarking machine anymore, however a P2-350 or a P3-500 should be able to handle what a widget set does withough showing any kind of slugishness. When using GTK2 based programs on my P3-800 everything feels really slow, window-resizes take a long time till the whole gui is redrawn and layouted and expose-events sent by X are only done slowly although I have a RENDER-accerlating graphic card and even on my P4/2.2ghz Eclipse has performance problems which it does not have when using the Fox-Toolkit as basis. Furthermore I think the new functionality is no excuse for GTK2's slowness, QT is as powerful in most areas (thats not a better/worse comparison, I just think both toolkits can be compared from their functionality) and does not have that problems - it got a bit slower when 3.0 was release because of all the fancy themening stuff but thats it. However from the functionality point of view GTK2 is great, would be great if developers would also keep an eye on performance for future developments. Thanks, lg Clemens _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
