Performance issue with new gtk 2.0 for win32

Allin Cottrell writes:
 > my gtk-2.0 app
 > runs appreciably slower.  This seems to be true for general gui
 > responsiveness (e.g. time taken for a menu to pop down when you click
 > its title) and particularly for pango-intensive operations --
 > displaying the content of a moderate-sized file in a gtktextview seems
 > inordinately slow.

Ah, that could be caused by all text processing now being done through
Uniscribe (if available). You could try setting the environment
variable PANGO_WIN32_NO_UNISCRIBE (which makes Pango ignore Uniscribe)
and check if the application works
any faster.

If the difference is significant, I probably should add some shortcut
to Pango to don't needlessly use Uniscribe for text runs that don't
need it.

--tml