Re: Why gtk+ application are so slow

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

>But we don't have to compare it with Windows. Let's compare it with
>KDE. Let's take, for example, a very simple application, such as
>Gedit. Forget huge applications such as Mozilla, let's just focus on a
>simple one.
>
>Now, boot your machine on KDE, and fire up Kedit. Then reboot on GTK,
>and fire up Gedit. Unless you've got very modern, you will see Kedit
>fires up much much faster than Gedit.

i must be ultra modern, then. gedit fires up slightly faster than
kedit in all of 10 tests, including 5 done without flushing the buffer
cache and 5 where the buffer cache was flushed every time.

i guess fedora core 1 is ahead of its time :)

oh, did i mention that some part of the machinery that kedit started
running also crashed, and that appears to require or at least look for
OpenGL?

--p