Re: Snappy GUI response
Michel Dänzer <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.xfree86.forum |
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| Organization | Debian, XFree86 |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 17:40, Owen Taylor wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 18:10, Keith Packard wrote: > > > 1) InternAtom -- Qt interns a bunch of atoms at startup time in > > one round trip; Gtk+ doesn't bother. That's actually a significant > > time savings. > > "doesn't bother" - well, umm, that's one way of putting it. I do have > some code for a similar hack now, that maybe I'll finish up today. > > > 2) Extensions. Each extension takes at least two round trips to > > initialize. > > Both this and InternAtom are startup times, things so don't really > affect interactivity. Startup times might contribute to the perception of snappiness (or lack thereof) though. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer