Neil Hodgson wrote:
Robert Roessler:
So. In the case of "GTK on Windows", I see a clear improvement - but
you find that in "real" or "native" GTK, my current approach to deal
with sucky - no, make that totally abysmal - text rendering
performance is not a winner... that presumably means I need to look
elsewhere (or possibly gain a better understanding of your results).
It could be a mistake in my testing but I'd want to see a
contradictory result from someone else before putting much effort into
this.
Well, after John reminded me about "X" being involved, it got me
thinking (partly about how very different the non-Windows world can be
)... if it is the case that an even vaguely X-like model is still in
use here, then maybe things are simple: even though we aren't talking
an actual wire, if there is anything as ugly as [parts of] a network
stack between the app (client) and the screen (X server), then one
might *not* expect simple pixmap copy operations to be all that cheap
compared to just sending the text and telling the other end to render it.
Yes, there are a few concatenated ifs... I trust someone will point
out how much the above differs from reality. ;)
BTW, I notice in a different post that you mention using VMware for
*nix testing - was that the case here, or was this a Fedora Core 4
running "on the metal"?
Native as performance testing through VMWare is likely to produce
results that won't apply to most users.
Indeed. :)
Robert Roessler
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