On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:26:51 +0200, Clemens Eisserer wrote: > I just don't get it why I need a 3ghz PC to not see repaint lags or 5fps > layout updates. > These things worked years ago ten times better than now (and no, this > are not themes. GTK-1/QT-2 were themed too with tons of pixmaps). What > has happend? > I guess performance regression testing is something never here has heard > of :-/ Welcome to the wonderful world of GTK... where performance keeps going down with every new version. My experience: GTK has always been a slug compared to other toolkits, but when I upgraded from FC4 to FC5, it included a version of GTK that was built with Cairo, and the performance dropped even further. I can start Motif or Qt applications and they run fine -- they redraw quickly and generally perform well. GTK apps though, particularly heavy text based ones... are pathetic. I wish I had a way to capture both the look and feel of it and upload it somewhere just so I could publicly show just how bad the GTK developer have let things go. I know that sounds trollish, but there really isn't any other way to describe it. It's awful. For what it's worth: I'm using a Matrox G550 with an open source driver (Direct rendering is enabled) on an Athlon XP 20000+. I dual boot with Windows XP, and rebooting the machine into Windows is a revelation. Smooth and fast... same as the Qt/Motif apps. Someone should be ashamed of that result, as if GTK didn't have a bad enough reputation for being poorly optimised already. _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
