RE: Why are people sticking with GTK+ 26.? (Re: GTK+ modularization)

["David Moffatt" <David Moffatt palmsource com>]

Hi Carl,

I work for the same company as Jesse.  Performance was indeed the
reason.  A lot of us wanted to use the latest and greatest but ARM CPUs
are not what you call "swift".

One thing you might want to look into is changing the usage of doubles.
They are used all over the place and they are way overkill.  On small
platforms like ours this is particularly painful because of floating
point emulation.  

--David.



-----Original Message-----
From: gtk-devel-list-bounces gnome org
[mailto:gtk-devel-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Carl Worth
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 5:09 PM
To: Jesse Donaldson
Cc: gtk-devel-list gnome org
Subject: Why are people sticking with GTK+ 26.? (Re: GTK+
modularization)

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:58:41 -0700, "Jesse Donaldson" wrote:
>                         We're still using v2.6, so folks may not care,
> but I'm happy to share our results (once we've obtained them).  Also,
if
> he'd like, I can try to put Mathias in touch with whoever will be
> looking at this on our end.

I'm personally interested in hearing more details about what your
motivation for sticking with 2.6 is. If it's performance concerns, (as
is the case with others I've talked to), then I should point out that
I'm personally very interested, and planning on fixing those
performance problems.

There's no good reason that GTK+ should have ever gotten slower. So
I'll be working to fix performance regressions. But I need help
identifying them. So anything anyone can share about things they have
hit would be useful. (And thanks to those who have already started
identifying things here on this list.)

-Carl
-- 
cworth redhat com