Re: --gtk-unbuffered

[Alexander Larsson <alla lysator liu se>]

On 27 Feb 2001, Sven Neumann wrote:

> Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> writes:
>
> >  - Your timings are extrodinarily higher than what we see on
> >    X11; this indicates that the problem lies, not in what
> >    GtkLabel is doing, but most likely in the backend Win32
> >    is using for Pango.
>
> I just ran the same tests on our GDK backend which is using the
> FreeType2 Pango backend and the timings are slightly slower than
> the ones for X11 but far from being as bad as the ones Hans
> obtained for the Win32 backend. So there must indeed be a problem
> in the Win32 backend.

I can tell you, that before I changed the FreeType2 Pango backend to cache
extents it was god-awfully slow. This might be the same cause. I'll
take a quick look at the win32 backend.

Btw. What gdk backend is this?

/ Alex