RE: Performance issue with new gtk 2.0 for win32

10 TIMES BETTER!!!!

Thanx tor, this makes the world of difference on a p2 333 box.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tor Lillqvist [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 03 December 2002 22:40
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [gimpwin-dev] 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
> 
> 
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