Re: Performance issue with new gtk 2.0 for win32

>  1) Win NT Task MAnager is bogus (more likely)

No, I don't think so. The task manager is very useful as it can show
the number of GDI and other handles allocated. Also, the amount of
memory allocated with malloc() and friends is shown quite truthfully
in my opinion, it goes up and down as memory is allocated and freed.

> 2) Gtk/GDK/GLIB libs free up memory chunks when they
> age ???? (Unlikely huh?)

There were indeed memory leaks in GDK/Win32 in the previous builds
(2.0.6), but they should be fixed now. At least, the test programs
that are attached to the bug report
(http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79720) don't leak memory
any longer, or didn't when I last checked.

Of course, it might well be that some other program still causes some
memory leak in GDK/Win32, or even in the backend-independent parts of
GTK+.

--tml