Gtkmm suitability for ARM

[Sean Kelley <sean sweng gmail com>]

Murray,

Are your CVS changes at 2.8 level of code?  My understanding is that
at 2.8, gtkmm includes support for Cairo.  But Cairo is very floating
point intensive, which is not a good thing for an ARM processor.  For
that reason, I have been using gtk+ 2.6 so as to avoid any Cairo
changes in 2.8 of Gtk+.

For embedded development would you recommend sticking with 2.6 of
Gtkmm? (I assume this translates to 2.4 for debian).

Sean


> > Murray,
> >
> > no, I haven't tried it yet, but I plan to this weekend.
> >
> > 770 is a really cool piece of hardware - its display is
> > amazing (800x480). Linux is a bit slow on startup (~30secs boot time),
>
> Off topic, but: Luckily it can sleep for several days, so I almost never
> start mine.
>
> > but application wise the platform is very
> > responsive.
>
> By the way, I recently did some work in cvs to add a --disable-deprecated
> configure option. When used, the deprecated classes are not included in
> the library at all. That should help a bit on reduced-resources devices
> like this.
>
> I'm sure there are more things that could be done though to reduce the
> code size, if I found the time.
>
> Murray Cumming
> murrayc murrayc com
> www.murrayc.com
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