Re: X11 version much faster than native one !

In article <[email protected]>,
 Martin Creutziger <[email protected]> wrote:

> Am 09.05.2004 20:53 Uhr  schrieb Vincent NICOLAS in sauberster Handschrift:
> 
> > Hi folks !
> > 
> > I've just tried the X11 version of Firefox for Mac OS X.
> > I was amazed about how faster this version is !
> > 
> > It launch fast and most of all, the scrolling of web sites is faster 
> > than light while "native" version is slow as a turtle. In a way, it is 
> > good news : my Mac is fast, I was just wondering...
> > 
> > My simple example : 
> > http://www.macgeneration.com/actu/index.shtml
> > Try page-up page-down, you will see !
> > 
> > The question is : will be a next version of Gecko WITHOUT this amazing 
> > slowdown in Carbon / Cocoa ?
> > 
> > 
> 
> Which X11 version did you use?
> I tried mine and can only confirm your oservation. Compared to the X11-gtk+, 
> Carbon is just so slow :-(
> Unfortunately, I didn't get gtk2+xft to work yet, so the fonts look kinda 
> ugly. 
> But I'll work on it :-)
> 
> I hope that the native one gets faster in the future, somehow I dont really 
> like 
> the X11 look in between all the Cocoa/Carbon apps.
> 
> Greetings . . . Martin

Don't exactly. It was a link from another newsgroup. Some guy somewhere 
who built it. Does a version with gtk2 + xft (what is xft ?) would bring 
some even better performances ?


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