Re: A tale of waiting

[Jernej Simončič <jernej listsonly ena si>]

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:12:05 +0200, Kristian Rietveld wrote:

> As a side comment, I am not really sure how fair it is to compare a
> full blown GUI to a command line utility with its output redirected to
> /dev/null.  I do agree that a load time of 4 to 6 seconds is too long.

I don't know about Linux, but on Windows the native chooser displays large
directories almost instantly, while the GTK+ one is very slow (eg.
directory with 970 images takes about 2 seconds to display in the native
file chooser, while in GTK+'s it takes 12 seconds).

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