One of the guys on IRC just told me that E developers claim E17 be faster then BB...
The internals are very much a state machine, much like Evas is. This means that all the work is only done in idle time - avoiding useless processing while E17 is busy handling a large stream of incoming events. The code has been optimized from the design standpoint - not the "save a comparison here and there" point. This has meant HUGE speedups. So far E17 is showing itself to be more responsive and faster than all WM's I've tested it against (this includes Blackbox, twm, fvwm, fvwm2, Windowmaker, mwm, and Sawfish). Admittedly E17 isn't hellishly lean on memory usage - but the design goal here is sheer speed, aesthetics, and user friendliness and responsiveness, whilst pushing the bleeding edge a little further along, and providing new exciting ideas for users to feast on. E17 should run just fine - if not snappily, even on a low end machine, as long as you are not too short on memory. You can find the full article here: http://www.ny.us.rasterman.com/pages/e.html igor -- Uptime : 57 days, 13:08
