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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tor Lillqvist [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 03 December 2002 22:33
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [gimpwin-dev] 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

NO. I don't and shouldn't have to redraw myself because i'm loading entries
into a GtkTreeStore.

> 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?

It does look different.  The menus, options and general feel is more like
the linux version of gtk.

> 
>  > 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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