RE: Fresh stuff for download: GLib 2.0.7, GTK+ 2.0. 9, Pango 1.0.5

[email protected] writes:
 > Yes this looks SUPERB, and the installer is good too, however, I am testing
 > all my software on a P3 333mzh with 256 mb of RAM to make sure that it will
 > run fine on low end machines, and this new GTK set of libs runs DAMN slow.
 > There is a real performance hit.  I have a window and i load 600 items into
 > a treeview and it takes the best part of a minute.

And the earlier 2.0.x releases were speedier? Do you draw stuff with
tiled or stippled fill styles? (Hmm, or does the tree widgets do
that?) That's one thing that could well cause significant slowdown, as
these were implemented only partially before, and now are implemented
more completely (but slowly, at least on Win9x). Does your application
look the same as earlier, or do you now notice things drawn
differently, more correctly?

 > Are there any optimising techniques in the gdk library?  

Not really (except for compiling with -O3). First make it work, then
make it fast.

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