2011/10/12 Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy@xxxxxxxxx>: >I found the same slowdown during the GTK-1.2 -> GTK-2 transition, and >it hasn't become a lot faster during the 2.x releases - moore's law >took care of it. I expect the same to happen with GTK3 sooner or later >(wether I like it or not, is a different question). >There simply don't seem a lot of devs arround optimizing code for fun, >whereas paid devs are usually busy implementing feature requests and >repairing behaviour/crash/blocker-bugs. But then, the GTK+ 1.x -> 2.x transition was much more dramatic, the addition of Pango was found to be a major performance bottleneck, as well as some of the other architectural enhancements, internationalization features and so on. So the slowdown, while very unfortunate, was at least understandable – 1.x was much more simple than 2.x. But GTK+ 3.0 more or less seemed like a cleanup of 2.24, no major enhancements. That's why I am so curious what happened, as the slowdown (which I have now confirmed on yet another computer) does not seem to be justifiable here. GTK+ 2.24 was already markedly slower than Qt 4.7, and now that GTK+ 3.0 is even 2-3 times slower than GTK+ 2.24, it is really becoming a competitive disadvantage. _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
