Gnome profiling ....

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Alan,

On Sat, 2001-12-22 at 00:47, Alan Cox wrote:
> None of the core components are actually usable in this situation. Nautilus
> is way too big (but arguably inappropriate). However nautilus is the gnome
> help browser for the new gnome.

	I understand that for Gnome 2.0 we have an ultra lightweight gtkhtml2
help browser - so this should be less of a problem.

	Also - after a little profiling from Federico - I've put a far better
turn of speed onto the stable (and 2.0) bonobos - and killed the
evolution flicker switching folders. We are still pushing far too much
data to and from the X server [ possibly blocking for the roundtrip ].
This is perhaps due to the way we are rendering Gdk pixbufs with
bonobo-ui-toolbar-icon; this it seems is the real bottleneck in the UI
handler - problem is it uses a rendering model that is (AFAICS) the
standard in Gtk+ 2.0 - so quite possibly all Gtk+ 2.0 programs will have
horrendous latency issues via remote X ( we could prolly fix this with
render extension help, but few older / non-free systems have this (?) ).

	So - yes, performance is important to me; and size too. My feeling is
that Bonobo, the UI handler, and the ORB combined are going to be not
only smaller, but also somewhat faster in Gnome 2.0 than in Gnome 1.4.

	And yes - I am interested in seeing Gnome on other people's TV's :-)

	Regards,

		Michael.
 
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