Re: gtk+ speed

[Sven Herzberg <herzi gnome-de org>]

Am Montag, den 22.12.2008, 14:27 +0100 schrieb Olav Vitters:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 03:10:13PM +0200, Eugene Gorodinsky wrote:
> > >Vala is a high level language which is translated to GObject and C, so
> > >you are proposing to rewrite GObject using GObject.
> > 
> > Vala can be modified, since it is open source and all. I'm not sure if
> > that's feasible though, as I'm not familiar with it.
> 
> Vala uses gobject. If you suspect gobject is slow, changes in vala won't
> affect gtk+.

I think he proposed to rewrite GTK+ on top of vala and then rewrite vala
to be faster than GObject (by using its own stuff, etc). So the real
issue would be that we think "one can't provide the features of gobject
with 50% of GObject's CPU usage".

Regards,
  Sven