Re: future of development for the desktop

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt metux de> wrote:

* Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com> wrote:

>      Well, AFAIK, gtk had become much more dynamic than its older
>      versions.
>      Maybe that's the problem: too many dynamic (heap) allocations,
>      lookups, etc, etc.
>      hmm, what could we possibly do about it ?
>
>    measuring it would be a good first step.

Sure. But, unfortunately, it's not trivial to set up some useful
test cases without actually implementing my suggested approach
in several applications first.

you made a fairly strong claim: that "too many dynamic (heap) allocations" are involved in slowing down GTK3, either w.r.t. GTK2 and/or w.r.t. other toolkits.

that seems like a fairly easy thing to test.