Re: gtk+ and gtk-engines slow

[raster redhat com]

On 23 Jan, Marcus Brubaker scribbled:
->  On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
->  
->  > 
->  > > and yet I provide cases for the PII-450 owners and the 486 owners toget
->  > > the best performance. You simply nuked performance for everyone except
->  > > 486 owners. That is worse that anythying else.
->  > 
->  > I did some measuring now.
->  > 
->  > The only people affected by the Pixmap cache being disabled are the
->  > medium- to low-end users.  Users of high end machines do not even have
->  > a way to notice the Gtk Pixmap theme with Pixmap Cache or without the
->  > Pixmap cache.
->  
->  I beg to differ.  I have a k6 233 w/ 128 megs of RAM.  There is a
->  noticable difference with or without the cache.  Without the cache it is
->  pretty much unusable.

agreed - I wrote the caching code for a good reason. people with extra
ram (which these days is cheap - what ? less than $1 per Mb ? thats for
10ns SDRAM ?) can use ti to prevent cpu hogging - it works and works
well. I wish others woudl see this.

->  
->  Marcus Brubaker
->  spoon@elpaso.net
->  http://www.elpaso.net/~spoon
->  
->  You might be a gamer if...you've ever argued against a combat rule based
->  on your experience in the SCA/Military/Police, etc.

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