Re: gtk performance testing [was Re: GNOME 2.11/2.12 targeting GTK+ 2.8 (ie cairo based)]

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 09:40 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> On 6/10/05, Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com> wrote:
> > > > I haven't seen this announced on gtk-devel or here, so:
> > > >
> > > > http://gtkperf.sourceforge.net/
> > > >
> > > > Apparently this is a test tool to test gtk performance. Would be great
> > > > to have someone test 2.7 with it.
> > >
> > > Went ahead and did it myself. TextView is brutally slower (300-400%),
> > > some other things are 25-30% slower, and some things actually get
> > > faster. Disclaimer: I'm pretty sure I did this right and I'm linking
> > > against the right stuff, but these numbers should be confirmed by an
> > > expert, and I can't speak to the validity of the tool's measurements
> > > itself, except to note that scrolling in a textview area is *visibly*
> > > slower.
> > 
> > New third column is HEAD + glitz, with an x31's ATI card. 
> 
> Someone larted me on IRC and informed me that it is likely that glitz
> wasn't actually being used. So take these with an even bigger grain of
> salt than my last set. I would love to know how one can (1) know for
> certain glitz is being used and/or (2) how to force glitz to be used
> so that I can do a quickie hack to automate this.

> > Total time: 253.31 565.94 647.60

The question is: Why did you get different times then?

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