GTK+ 2 speed

["Robert Thorpe" <Robert Thorpe antenova com>]

Users of PCB are attempting to find out why the GTK+ version gPCB is
slower than the Athena version.  I'm also beginning to write a graphical
program and deciding which widget set to use, so I'm interested in the
same issue.

To help us both, it would be useful if anyone knowledgable on this list
could answer a couple of questions: -

* Are there any general reasons why GTK is slower than other widget
libraries?  Is it in fact slower, or is it just common
mis-configurations?

* Also, is it true that GTK must handle many events by performing long
string comparison operations?  Does this cause a slowdown?

Thanks