On 06/06/2011 03:42 AM, Alex Midence wrote:
I seem to recall that Klaus Knopix is reputed to have had some success
making LXDE accessible in his Knopix Adrienne distribution. Perhaps
that is something that could be used as reference? As for
python-related slowness in Orca, I would tend to agree. C is just
faster than Python. Interpreted languages are going to require far
more memory and resources than compiled ones in many cases.
Actually, a saner thing would be an implementation of orca written in
both C or c++ and Python. The low-level code in c and the more
scriptable areas in Python.
Although Frederik already mentioned that a proper profile is required,
and that most of the performance problems on Linux are related with
DBUS, I want to add some comments.
For what it worths, right now there are a running project in order to
improve Orca performance:
https://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/Opportunities/OrcaPerformance
AFAIK, as part of this project, one thing to investigate is if it worth
to move part of current Orca implementation to C in order to improve
performance (as IMHO, a full C re-implementation doesn't worth it).
Caribou recently did something similar.
BR
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