Re: (severe) performance issues

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 22:27 +0200, David Nečas (Yeti) wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 12:43:20PM -0700, David J. Andruczyk wrote:
> > 
> > since there is NO  other wisget that can
> > be used to display rapidlychanging text.
> 
> Most widgets can do it.  Just do gdk_draw_layout() on
> whatever you want.
> 
> > (it's a textual display
> > for a realtime datalogger, so fast updating is wanted)
> 
> Updating textual information 30x a second (2007-March/msg00116)
> does not make any sense though.

it can be more work to make non-textual and textual elements update at a
different rate than to just swallow the cost and do them both on the
same interval.

oh for an X toolkit that was really driven by the vertical retrace
interrupt .... not realistic given network transparency, but a hacker
can dream, can't s/he ?

--p