I re-ran my gnome-terminal "large text file output" benchmark with vte 0.11.8 and gnome-terminal 2.13.91.
This new benchmark is on the same computer as before (1.8 GHz Pentium-M laptop), but running Ubuntu Dapper Drake. It's interesting to note that while the average (and even the worst case) for the newest gnome-terminal and vte were a bit lower, there was quite a range even on an otherwise-unloaded system. Lowest was 11.08 seconds to output the (cached) file, highest was 17.82 seconds. I'm not sure why the results were so inconsistent, but it's certainly better overall. Including the benchmarks from before (I've confirmed that uxterm and xterm perform the same as they did last time): Gnome-terminal (GNOME 2.12.0) real 0m18.419s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.191s Gnome-terminal (GNOME 2.13.91) real 0m14.02s user 0m0.01s sys 0m0.21s Uxterm real 3m56.133s user 0m0.003s sys 0m0.139s Xterm real 0m20.574s user 0m0.001s sys 0m0.144s In all cases, the file has been read immediately before benchmarks, so any level of caching should be even. Also, the processor was running at full clock speed (1.8 GHz) during all tests, and few other programs were running (none intensely). For more details, refer to the more thorough profiling document: http://www.netdrain.com/performance/gnome-term-prof/ Nice job, Behdad and everyone else :) -Travis On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 11:11 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: > Due to the number of fine speedups in GNOME 2.14, it would be really > nice to put some attractive graphs in the release notes about things > that are faster. > > Did somebody want to get my some hard numbers (and perhaps even some > graphs) that would be suitable for the release notes. Things that I was > thinking of include: > - Pango rendering; > - vte; and > - g_new vs GMemChunk vs GSlice (for the developer section) > > Please CC replies, not on list. > > Thanks all, > > --d > _______________________________________________ Performance-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/performance-list
