On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Tomasz Motylewski wrote: > gtk is drawing SLOWLY on Windows. I was helping to port gerbv to mingw32/GTK, > it is several times slower than under Linux. gEDA is all about drawing lines > and shapes.
Yeah, that's an annoying aspect of that toolkit...I've had some people use gtkwave on Win32, complain how incredibly slow it is to update the screen, and not believe that the linux version is considerably faster because they believe Everything Runs Better Under Windows(tm). Keep that in mind if someone's first exposure to gEDA is a windows port: they might not exactly have a great first opinion of it due to the screen update speed. Is there a GTK version for windows that can target a local X server like Exceed or cygwin or whatever? Something's definitely weird with the GTK toolkit port to windows. I guess the gdk->GDI stuff is doing a lot of translation such that it has to emulate the X11 ops the hard way or maybe it does so somewhat inefficiently. *shrugs* Interestingly, GDI->X11 is relatively fast, or at least I remember it being so back when I worked at netraverse on win4lin. -t
