Re: on Win32, --enable-gdiplus makes pixbuf loading 6 times slower

[Adam Dingle <adam yorba org>]

Thanks for the helpful response, Tor.

> You are of course free to do that.

Yes, of course.  If we do want to build our own GTK for Windows, do you have any advice about how to do that?  I believe that you cross-compile on OpenSUSE, yes?  I suppose we could install the ming32-gtk2 source package on OpenSUSE and build that - is that the easiest approach?

> Anyway, isn't GTK+ 2.18 too buggy (in other ways) on Windows to be
> usable?

GTK+ 2.18.1 seems okay, no buggier than 2.16 at least.  I haven't done much testing with newer versions due to the aforementioned pixbuf slowdown.

adam

Tor Lillqvist wrote:

 Tor, can you confirm that you turned on --enable-gdiplus starting with GTK 2.18.3?
    

Yes.

  

 I think we should probably build without GDI+ until/unless its
pixbuf loading can be made faster.
    

You are of course free to do that.

I am reluctant to change back to using the libtiff and libjpeg -based
loaders as I want to avoid dependencies if I can.

Anyway, isn't GTK+ 2.18 too buggy (in other ways) on Windows to be
usable? You don't find that more irritating than the perceived
slowness of gdk-pixbuf loaders?

--tml