Re: [Evolution] Slow performance?

[Toby A Inkster <fundraisingadmin national-childbirth-trust co uk>]

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 10:29, Erik Bågfors wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 01:12, Erik Hollensbe wrote:
>
> > I have this same problem. The problem is the speed of GTK+ 2, especially
> > on machines lower than 1ghz. It's much faster on FreeBSD (on a slower
> > system even) but linux users really get crapped on performance wise.
>
> Funny, I use a 800MHZ (746.779 according to /proc/cpuinfo) and
> everything is quite fast here.  
>
> I've also used gtk2 on my IPAQ which is _alot_ slower and it's also
> quite fast

Yes, my machine at home is a 400MHz Celery[1] and is running GNOME 2.4
betas at a very reasonable speed.

Me thinks this is Linux FUD from BSDers. :-)

[1] Admittedly it has quite a bit of RAM.

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