Re: Sawfish building patch

[Joe Shaw <joe ximian com>]

On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 11:33, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > > Sander Vesik <sv117949 ireland sun com> writes:
> > > > gnome-calculator: 19968   14224    8600    5624
> 
> Here is the size of my gnome-panel-2 after it's been running for a while:
> 
>   23192 hp        11   0  6392 5180  3260 S     0.1  2.0   0:56 gnome-panel-2

As another data point (note, GDK_USE_XFT=1)

 9487 joe        9   0  9576 8564  7120 S     0.0  3.3   0:05 gnome-panel-2
 9813 joe        9   0  7456 7452  5896 S     0.0  2.9   0:00 gnome-calculato

> Not even close to the 20 megs you show for the calculator, and the
> panel is a much more complex app, or should be.

For my calculator, I did two operations, so it looks like it has a
pretty big leak.

> Overall GNOME 2 seems faster/smaller than 1.4 to me.

I dunno.  Startup times seem to be quite a bit slower, and drawing seems
a little sluggish, but then again, I am spoiling myself with AA fonts.
Are you using GDK_USE_XFT?  Is the overhead here Pango/client-side
rendering?

Joe