Re: Why gtk+ application are so slow

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

>On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 07:51:16 -0500, Paul Davis
><paul linuxaudiosystems com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Could you please tell us you hardware config?

P4, 2.8GHz, IDE 7200rpm drive, 2.4.26+lowlat kernel.

results are similar on a dual PII-400, all SCSI-3 10K drives, same
kernel.

my point was not to prove or disprove anything, merely to illustrate
that these anecdotal recountings of what is or isn't fast don't do
anything useful. they simply point out possible problems or benefits
of a particular machine+user configuration. whether the "runtime
design of GTK" has deep problems isn't covered by such "tests".

--p