Re: Scrolling performance

[Mark Leisher <mleisher crl nmsu edu>]

Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> > (1.6Ghz CPU, 768M of RAM, and an NVidia 440Go chipset), hardly a screamer
> Well but it should be enough to handle these simple tasks very fast.
> If QT can do it fast, GTK should be able too.
>
> I just wonder why QT performs that well (and many other toolkits I've
> used too like FOX or FLTK) but everytime it comes down to bad
> performance of GTK the following things happen:
> 1.) Not even one comment from a developer. Maybe there are not enough,
> maybe nobody cares, ore maybe they can't cope with critic? I don't
> know.
> 2.) Some fans respond that on their machines its working fast enough.
> Fighting against that one that brought up the topic to show him that
> their favourite Gui toolkit is not as weak as it looks.
> 3.) The discussion dies with or without a flame.
> -> no result, nothing changes.

I run GTK+ 2.8 on a 400MHz Pentium II box (512MB, Slackware 9) every day 
without any noticeable performance problems. At one time or another I 
have used pretty much all versions of GTK+ on this machine without any 
performance problems. In fact I just installed all the latest libraries 
last night and didn't experience any performance problems with any 
programs I linked to the new libraries.

Your performance problem is most likely configuration or 
distribution-specific. Thus the lack of response from the developers. 
The discussion founders because nothing needs changing except perhaps 
your system, which your fellow travelers can only help with up to a 
point because most of us don't have your specific setup.

I will say that it not a good sign that problems like yours can't be 
diagnosed easily. The accretion of mass and complexity in the OS and GUI 
is making it increasingly difficult to determine where to start 
troubleshooting.
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