Re: Gtk performance issues from a user's point of view

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 22:52 +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote:

> He had taken GTK+ 2.10, ran gtk-demo with buttons and resized the
> window like mad. Sysprof indicated that some (IIRC) 75% of the time
> was spent within X (dunno the exact setup). There was some funkyness
> with expose propagation (fetching a style property _every time_,
> yikes!) but even if you'd optimize the whole section of GTK+ code to
> be faster, that would yield a very tiny improvement. So it really
> seems to be something in the way GTK+ uses X (or graphics in general)
> .
> 
> I think I'll try to recreate the numbers too to try to get a handle of
> what's going on.

Thanks for working on this :)  Do you think you could get a modular X
server built with debug info, so that Sysprof can show function names
within the X code?

  Federico