On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:43:28 +0200 Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > * Gour <gour@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Found it...it talks about gtk3 2x slower than gtk2 which I really > > did not notice and cannot say how good that benchmark is to reflect > > real speed. > > Well, AFAIK, gtk had become much more dynamic than its older versions. > Maybe that's the problem: too many dynamic (heap) allocations, > lookups, etc, etc. > > hmm, what could we possibly do about it ? If there is a difference, and we are in the realm of guesswork, then I would suspect the different theming engines as a more likely culprit. I don't think that GDK has changed significantly - as far as I am aware GTK+3 and later versions of GTK+2 both use cairo and cairo-pango. I would be surprised if GTK+3 used significantly more heap allocation than later versions of GTK+2. Note also that glib memory slices are a pretty efficient small object allocator. It is a long time since malloc() was used for anything other than large block allocations. Be careful or you will end up reinventing the wheel. Chris _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
