Re: GTK 2.0 5 times slower than 1.2

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

S. Eken wrote:

> I am porting software from GTK version 1.2 to version 2.0
> and I encountered the problem that the GTK 2.0 version
> takes much longer to initialize (up to 5 times with simple
> programs) than the GTK 1.2 version. The increase in
> communication with the X server seems to be at least part
> of the phenomenon.
>
> Also the way GTK 2.0 behaves seems to be extremely dependend
> on the version of the X server used and if any GTK 2.0
> application has run before. Below you can see the results
> of my experiments with different GTK and X server versions.
>
> In addition you will find the source code of the program I
> used to perform the tests.
>
> I would be thankful for any hint how to reduce the
> initialization time of GTK 2.0 applications and/or how to
> reduce or speed up communication with the X server.
>  
This is probably due to listing all the fonts on the server.  You should 
get faster startup times using the Xft backend for Pango (export 
GDK_USE_XFT=1).

James.

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