Re: gdk pixmap routines speed [Was: GTK widget: Round dial]

[raster redhat com]

On  9 Jan, Miguel de Icaza shouted:
->  
->  > One thing that gdk does need is much faster
->  > ()
->  > 	  and
->  > gdk_pixmap_create_from_xpm_d()
->  > functions - they are way too slow. I'll bet imlib has a something you can
->  > drop in to replace this and quadruple performance...? ;)
->  
->  Agreed.  The current implementation take about 1 second to execute on
->  a 486 to load a 48x48 pixmap.

yeah.. i heard.. yuk! :(

->  On an 433Mhz/Alpha, loading 50 bitmaps takes about 5 seconds.
->  
->  Someone told me that the xpm support on gdk at some point used
->  libXpm.  Is there any chance to put this code back in gtk?  We could
->  add an autoconf test and use Xpm if available, otherwise the slow
->  implementations are used.

Well i'm adding imlib as a "gdk_imlib_*" functions to some .c files..
if it goes into gdk or not i don't know.. but i'm working// i coudl
look at libxpm code and snarf the xpm loading stuff.. reh-ack it..
clean it and dump it into imlib... the "gdk_pixmap_create_from_xpm"
function  coudl then just bie a simple wrapper of 3 imlib functions.

->  best wishes,
->  Miguel.

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