On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 23:29, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > does not show such a marked difference. One point of difference is that the > > Matlab GUI is written entirely in Java, while the other program uses GTK. > > With Swing (JFC)? Swing is the most stupid GUI I've ever seen. It draws all > components to a local buffer and transfers these buffers as bitmap to the > xserver. Most likely this transfer is much slower than a simple "draw a gray > rect at 127,86" and "draw text at 129, 88" as GTK and any other "normal" > X11 does its drawing.
Don't know much about toolkits, but even xfig (or LyX) for Cygwin runs slow locally on Cygwin/XFree86 in comparison to XWin32, so I think Harold is 100% on it with the Native GDI engine (no speed issues when run in rootless+twm) Best regards to all, Milos
