Fwd: Why are people sticking with GTK+ 26.? (Re: GTK+ modularization)

[Paul Plaquette <trilda free fr>]

Carl,

there 's at least one : Pango is using Cairo, cairo is a double based  
vector graphics engine... Pango became slower since it is using it.

On embedded platform the cost for calculations with double is really  
heavy.
Embedded computing does not benefit from  the pseudo empiric  "intel  
moore law" at  the same pace than desktop computing.

Would be nice if Cairo could exist in an embedded version with fixed  
point calculations.
The embedded version of Open GL is using fixed point calculations so  
why not Cairo ?

- Paul.

On Jul 20, 2006, at 2:09 AM, Carl Worth wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:58:41 -0700, "Jesse Donaldson" wrote:
> >                         We're still using v2.6, so folks may not  
> > care,
> > but I'm happy to share our results (once we've obtained them).   
> > Also, if
> > he'd like, I can try to put Mathias in touch with whoever will be
> > looking at this on our end.
>
> I'm personally interested in hearing more details about what your
> motivation for sticking with 2.6 is. If it's performance concerns, (as
> is the case with others I've talked to), then I should point out that
> I'm personally very interested, and planning on fixing those
> performance problems.
>
> There's no good reason that GTK+ should have ever gotten slower. So
> I'll be working to fix performance regressions. But I need help
> identifying them. So anything anyone can share about things they have
> hit would be useful. (And thanks to those who have already started
> identifying things here on this list.)
>
> -Carl
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